Of Men and Women

The freedom with which American women went out of their homes, the informality with which they talked to men, and the whole spontaneity of their behavior were all signs of a free society. The pattern of men and women, I then learned for the first time, was different in America from the fixed and static pattern of men and women in China.

I took woman’s equality with man for granted, therefore, until I came to live in my own country seven years ago.

the so-called feminine qualities, that they began to be accepted as the essentials of a civilized people.

all of life is right for women only if men they value comprehend and approve them.

Every part of life has the possibility of the joy of their full meeting. All of life is right for men only if women they value comprehend and approve them for what they are,

“Do most women work outside the home around here,” I asked, “or do you have an unusual wife?”

“No, she ain’t unusual—not like that, I mean,” he said. “Women mostly help out their menfolks around here.”

Why, in a country such as ours, where woman is given every privilege and as much opportunity apparently as she wants, should she be so often dissatisfied in herself and so restless an influence in society? And why should man not like her better than he does?

there must always be something unusual in a woman who is willing to cross oceans and make a home on alien earth

When marriage is no longer considered necessary between men and women, when children are born without families to be responsible for them, then the end result is that the state must take over

it is well that American women have had the experience of having to think for themselves and do for themselves, in this long interval when so many thousands of our men have been away