To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem. Mary Barnett Gilson More Quotes by Mary Barnett Gilson More Quotes From Mary Barnett Gilson ... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons. Mary Barnett Gilson experience lessons education It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting. Mary Barnett Gilson sitting ordinary mean The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change. Mary Barnett Gilson change long thinking I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience. Mary Barnett Gilson support self order ... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control. Mary Barnett Gilson moon responsibility children It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men's attitude toward women and women's passive acceptance of this attitude. Mary Barnett Gilson women acceptance attitude One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad. Mary Barnett Gilson faults weakness purpose We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous. We are concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in hats. We are impressed by advertisements that insist we must be alluring; we must adopt a time-consuming coiffure, we must spend hours with the "beautician," we must attend fashion shows. As long as women are preoccupied with nonessentials we shall be afflicted with infantilism, passivity, and the eventual disillusionment that results from trivial, unproductive lives. Mary Barnett Gilson thrill fashion long Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few. Mary Barnett Gilson intellectual men mean I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or out of the home. Until this attitude prevails I believe the position of women will be uncertain and undignified, in spite of poetic rhapsodies to the contrary. Mary Barnett Gilson home attitude believe ... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers. Mary Barnett Gilson wages annoyed work The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic "dependent," reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help. Mary Barnett Gilson marriage fashion jobs
