Elizabeth Garver Jordan

“ Never had such a gay, inexperienced, unsophisticated little woman come into the office. Bets were freely offered that she would leave before the end of the week—an impression which the city editor fully shared until Thursday morning, when she had brought him a news "tip" that made him take his feet off his desk and show other signs of joyful professional interest. ”

“ My husband, you know, is not strong, and I have to be very careful of him. I don't regret our quiet life—we 're very happy. But I sometimes think I should go about more and broaden and develop my mind, for the sake of my work."
Her voice lingered fondly on the last two words. She was plainly fascinated by her brief newspaper experience, and Miss Herrick saw and marvelled over this, just as she had marvelled six months before when the ill-prepared novice had taken her first plunge into the journalistic whirlpool. ”

“ Perhaps the world is n't really as bright and beautiful as it seems to me, but I don't see why I should go out of my way to discover that. The popular idea of 'experience' in the office is evidently to be broken on a wheel a few times. ”

“ She propped her soft chin in the palms of her incompetent little hands and looked down at Miss Herrick rather doubtfully as she resumed her confidences.
"I sometimes think," she said wistfully, "that it's because I have n't had experience enough—I mean, I have n't lived enough and seen enough. The other newspaper women I know seem to have such dramatic lives. Interesting things are always happening to them. Nothing ever happens to me. ”

“ I get little, unimportant assignments that don't count, though they make me work hard enough—and when I have finished I go home to John. We 're so far up in Harlem that it does n't seem worth while to come downtown in the evening to the theatre or anything of that kind, and so we stay at home—and I suppose we stagnate. ”