A Free Lance; Being Short Paragraphs And Detached Pages From An Author's Note book
The book A Free Lance; Being Short Paragraphs And Detached Pages From An Author's Note book was written by author Marvin, Frederic Rowland, 1847-1918 Here you can read free online of A Free Lance; Being Short Paragraphs And Detached Pages From An Author's Note book book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Free Lance; Being Short Paragraphs And Detached Pages From An Author's Note book a good or bad book?
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Women may vote, hold office, and do the things men do, but only when they learn to live as men live can they know what it is to lead a free life. So long as they are upon their knees before the milliner and the dressmaker; so long as they are unable to travel ten miles without a large trunk well packed; so long as they must ride horse- back with both feet on the same side of the horse; so long as they must wear their hats, PERSONALITY 39 which they describe as "creations," indoors — that is to ...say, in the theatre, in the church, and at functions of various kinds; so long as they must dress only as the latest fashion requires — so long they must remain the slaves they have always been. Man's freedom is not a thing apart from his life; the two are inseparable. Far back in the early colonial days in this coun- try the cobbler of Agawam wrote of women, "It is no marvel they wear drailes on the hinder part of their heads, having nothing, as it seems, in the fore part but a few squirrel's brains to help them frisk from one fashion to another." The only possible escape from the "squirrel's brains" is now, as it always was and always will be, through the open door of personal inde- pendence.
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