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“Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger.”

Book:The Magnificent Ambersons

Work

The Magnificent Ambersons

The story follows the Amberson family as they navigate the complexities of a rapidly evolving world, reflecting on the loss of their former prominence and the challenges of modernity more

Author

Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington was an American novelist known for his works that often depicted the lives of the upper class in the early 20th century. His writing style was characterized by wit and social commentary, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice. more

“Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in changing the American consciousness. When a right reaches the status and categorization of a "civil right," it means the nation has arrived at a consensus that is nonnegotiable. Violence against women would no longer be written off ... Once our criminal justice system -- at the local, state and federal levels -- recognized these as serious and inexcusable crimes, women could stop blaming themselves.”

Politics Women

Book:Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

Source: Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

“Such a number of nights,' said the girl, with a touch of woman's tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; 'such a number of nights as I've been patient with you, nursing and caring for you, as if you had been a child: and this the first that I've seen you like yourself; you wouldn't have served me as you did just now, if you'd thought of that, would you? Come, come; say you wouldn't.”

Love Care Women

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases – was transformed, through hypnosis, into an artificial hysteric who perfectly simulated the simulations of hysteria. The medical photograph becomes a copy of a copy of a copy, a representation so far removed from the original that all duplicitous traits, were easily erased, leaving the deranged and chaotic nature of the original far behind. The photograph succeeded in turning the hysteric into a wholly artificial being, literally a flat, framed, unmoving image.”

Women Photograph Hysteria Image Hysterics

Book:The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

Source: The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France