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• In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Sex, Business, Roles

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

  Margaret Halsey

  Government, Quality, Ashes

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

  Margaret Halsey

  Fear, Spoons, Knees

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Attitude, Generosity, Quality

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.

  Margaret Halsey

  Jobs, Creative, Ruins

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.

  Margaret Halsey

  Thinking, Kegs, Sometimes

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• Example is better than precept.

  Margaret Halsey

  Teaching, Learning, Example

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Rodents, Definitions

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

  Margaret Halsey

  Food, Thinking, Firsts

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

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  Shoes, England, Looks

  With Malice Toward Some pt. 2 (1938)

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• From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

  Margaret Halsey

  Oxford, Mind, Visitors

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

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  Fire, Hot, Nerves

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

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  Doctors, People, Fifty

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

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  Wind, Rags, Tables

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.

  Margaret Halsey

  Daughter, People, Childhood

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Men, Justice

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• children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Business, Maturity

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

  Margaret Halsey

  Business, Emotional, Scarcity

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• Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Justice, Diversity

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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