You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works.

Donald McCaig
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The philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson had an impact on the world. Emerson had this to say about the reading habits of ladies: "Women do not read because they have no time; women do not read because they have nothing to read; women do not read for years because they cannot endure it; women do not read because they are afraid of what is in books; women do not read because men love them best when they are stupid; women do not read, but are themselves the only things that ever will be read."

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