Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?
Dorothy L. SayersTags: sarcasm irony faces appearance ugliness chins double-chins
Do you know how to pick a lock?'
'Not in the least, I'm afraid.'
'I often wonder what we go to school for,' said Wimsey.
Tags: school skills abilities lock-picking
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: honesty morality feelings sentiments
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: morality hypocrisy double-standards conduct-of-life blame social-norms
_'You shouldn't say thank you for a good review,' said Harriet. 'That would imply that one had done a favour to the author, whereas one has simply done justice to the book.'_
Dorothy L. SayersIn reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: individuality empowerment gender women feminism self-determination misogyny stereotypes discrimination double-standards clichés dignity social-norms classification
Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should so often have to make the choice. A man does not, as a rule, have to choose. He gets both. Nevertheless, there have been women ... who had the choice, and chose the job and made a success of it. And there have been and are many men who have sacrificed their careers for women ... When it comes to a choice, then every man or woman has to choose as an individual human being, and, like a human being, take the consequences.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: empowerment gender women choice freedom feminism self-determination misogyny inequality stereotypes double-standards clichés career
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: empowerment gender men women feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes double-standards clichés career social-norms passion-for-work
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: empowerment equality discrimination skills abilities career jobs qualifications
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: empowerment gender girls freedom self-determination stereotypes clichés dignity
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