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Letter "A" » American Woman
«I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
American Woman, dependent, domestic, due to, hesitation, in some respects, respects, sphere, station, superiority, With all due respect
«Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation»
Author: Alfred Hamilton Barr
| About:
America and Americans,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
aesthetic, American Woman, appreciation, automobile, Eye of
«If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.»
Author: Christopher Hampton
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
American Girl, American Woman, capitalism, whereby
«Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
American state, American Woman, America Today, converting, distinctive, diversities, diversity, fortunately, homogenized, homogenizing, liked, mature, melting, melting pot, passed, pot, richer, standardized, stranded, strands, The Strand, welcome, woven
«It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.»
«If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
| About:
Happiness,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
American Woman, an American, consisted, cow, cowed, ease, happiest
«American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ago, American, American Woman, demanding, doors, educated, employees, gave, hardworking, honest woman, hoping, long ago, pictures, prospective, stopped, The Doors, The Men, The Women, up on
«The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Husbands,
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
American Woman, castrate, castrated, castrates, castrating, geld, gelded, Her husband
«She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
American, American Woman, As If, behaves, The Secret
«Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
American, American Woman, cases, darn, darned, hysterical, not for, pathological, psychoanalysis, silly, sock, socks
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