“We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.” KnowsDifferentCharacterGirlUnderstandingQualityYouthFaultsCharmGod KnowsMirthHer BeautyCapriceGirlhood Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.” ThinkingKnowsTryingChildrenHas BeensSaidCountryUseFunnyMotherGirlFoundOughtLateFaultsExcuseServantToo LateSundayTake MeRemedy Author:William Howard Taft
“One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.” GivingShouldGirlFearDangerousObjectsFaultsSillyPresent Time Author:Ellen Swallow Richards