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The training and education of the girl of the present have seldom been discussed except from one standpoint—her suitable preparation for becoming an economical housekeeper, an inexpensive wife, a willing and self-forgetful mother, a cheap, unexacting, patient, unquestioning, unexpectant, ministering machine. The girl's usefulness to herself, to her sex and race, her preferences, tastes, happiness, social, intellectual or financial prosperity, hardly have entered into the thought upon this question.
(Ruth C. D. Havens, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902).
Speaking in 1893 at the twenty-fifth annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Havens was from Washington, D.C.; her address was entitled "The Girl of the Future.")
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I am just a little girl who's looking for a little boy who's looking for a girl to love.
(Ira Gershwin (1896-1983), U.S. songwriter. "Looking for a Boy," Tip-Toes, Harms, Inc. (1925).
Music composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937).)
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It was at the time, the place, of nougats.
There the dogwoods, the white ones and the pink ones,
Bloomed in sheets, as they bloom, and the girl,
A pink girl took a white dog walking.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Forces, the Will & the Weather.")
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The training and education of the girl of the present have seldom been discussed except from one standpoint—her suitable preparation for becoming an economical housekeeper, an inexpensive wife, a willing and self-forgetful mother, a cheap, unexacting, patient, unquestioning, unexpectant, ministering machine. The girl's usefulness to herself, to her sex and race, her preferences, tastes, happiness, social, intellectual or financial prosperity, hardly have entered into the thought upon this question.
(Ruth C. D. Havens, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902).
Speaking in 1893 at the twenty-fifth annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Havens was from Washington, D.C.; her address was entitled "The Girl of the Future.")
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Hard-hearted girl,
get rid of these doubts
based on false rumor.
It's not good
to subject me to sorrow
because of backbiters' words,
or have you decided now,
silly girl,
that it's all true?
Do to me what you will,
sweetheart.
Suit yourself.
(Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.), Kashmirian king, compiler, author of some of the poems in the anthology which bears his name. translated from the Amaruataka by Martha Ann Selby, vs. 53, Motilal Banarsidass (1983).)
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What, then, does a chaste girl do?
She does not offer, yet she does not say "No."
(Marcus Valerius Martial (c. 40-104), Spanish-born Roman poet, epigrammatist. Epigrams, bk. 4, no. 71.)
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The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
(Helen Rowland (1875-1950), U.S. journalist. "Intermezzo," A Guide to Men (1922).)
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Surely spring will allow
a girl without a stitch on
to turn softly in her sunlight
and not be afraid of her bed.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "It Is a Spring Afternoon.")
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