I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.
George GissingTags: advice the-odd-women
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
George GissingNowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [...] chink of cups and the saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
George GissingTags: tea
A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.
George GissingTags: sexism gender-discrimination
I wish girls fell down and died of hunger in the streets, instead of creeping to their garrets and the hospitals. I should like to see their dead bodies collected together in some open place for the crowd to stare at.'
Monica gazed at her with wide eyes.
'You mean, I suppose, that people would try to reform things.'
'Who knows? Perhaps they might only congratulate each other that a few of the superfluous females had been struck off.
There should be no such thing as a class of females vulgarized by the necessity of finding daily amusement.
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