Emily James Smith Putnam Quotes

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.