Patricia Meyer Spacks

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    The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
    Patricia Meyer Spacks (b. 1929)

    The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
    Patricia Meyer Spacks (b. 1929)

    It certainly must have been a relief for the women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
    —Patricia Meyer Spacks (b. 1929)