Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from...
Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from...
Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from...
Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from...
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Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle. Women like to make things for people. It’s what women do. They like to make things with their hands and make things look pretty.

This quote is very clever because it sounds like it’s talking about sewing, but it’s not. The word “delicate” means something that is beautiful or fine, like how a fine piece of lace might be called delicate. If you think about it for a second, women are excellent at making things out of nothing; they are so good at manipulating time and space that they can turn nothing into something.

Source: The Scarlet Letter

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