item: #1 of 16 id: 1107 author: Shakespeare, William title: The Taming of the Shrew date: None words: 40 flesch: 79 summary: THERE IS AN IMPROVED EDITION OF THIS TITLE WHICH MAY BE VIEWED AS EBOOK (#1508) at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1508 ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG'S EARLY FILES PRODUCED keywords: ebook cache: 1107.txt plain text: 1107.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 14863 author: Daviess, Maria Thompson title: The Tinder-Box date: None words: 52604 flesch: 76 summary: And the sight of dear old Jane mixing with those Harpeth Valley farmer folk was one of the things I have put aside to remember for always. Sometimes it startles me to find that with all my emancipation I am very like other women. keywords: augusta; aunt; cousin; crag; day; dear; evelina; eyes; face; glendale; good; harpeth; head; heart; help; henrietta; home; james; jane; jasper; left; life; love; martha; men; nell; night; peter; polk; sallie; things; thought; time; town; uncle; voice; want; way; woman; world cache: 14863.txt plain text: 14863.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 1772 author: Shakespeare, William title: The Taming of the Shrew date: None words: 40 flesch: 79 summary: THERE IS AN IMPROVED EDITION OF THIS TITLE WHICH MAY BE VIEWED AS EBOOK (#1508) at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1508 ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG'S EARLY FILES PRODUCED keywords: ebook cache: 1772.txt plain text: 1772.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 20236 author: Freeley, Mary Belle title: Fair to Look Upon date: None words: 21195 flesch: 69 summary: And so after all we owe the ten commandments to a Jewish woman's wit, strategy and love, and an Egyptian woman's compassion and disobedience, for the stern command that Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river was not given to the army, the navy or the church, to one man or woman, to doctors or midwives, but to all the people, and in this affair there were a number of women, who all connived to foil the powers that be and refused to do the King's bidding. No: He sent for a wise woman, and we read that he instructed her what to do, but judging from other women we are sure she instructed him--anyway she went to the King, and she talked like a lawyer, she plead with eloquence, she confessed charmingly, and she flattered with the cunning of her sex, saying, for as an angel of God, so is my Lord the King to discern good and bad, and my Lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, which you will admit was putting it pretty strong. keywords: abraham; course; day; days; father; god; husband; illustration; jacob; king; know; look; lord; love; men; moses; sarah; thee; time; wife; woman; world cache: 20236.txt plain text: 20236.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 32906 author: Walton, Bryce title: Thy Name Is Woman date: None words: 8214 flesch: 90 summary: And that's the only way Earth men can ever get into space. [Sidenote: _Women of earth had finally attained their objective: a new world all their own and--without men! keywords: bowren; earth; face; man; men; thought; way; women cache: 32906.txt plain text: 32906.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 34243 author: Grahame, Kenneth title: The Headswoman date: None words: 7392 flesch: 73 summary: So genteel! She's not a bad sort of girl, little Claire, said Enguerrand reflectively (thereby angering Jeanne afresh): but putting her aside,--of course you could always beat me at argument, Jeanne; you'd have made a much better lawyer than I. It is true that on this occasion the Council might have been called upon to consider and examine the title of the claimant, the late lamented official having only left a daughter,--she who now stands before you; but I am happy to say that Jeanne--the young lady in question--with what I am bound to call great good-feeling on her part, has saved us all trouble in that respect, by formally applying for the family post, with all its--er--duties, privileges, and emoluments; and her application appears to be--er--quite in order. keywords: business; day; enguerrand; girl; good; jeanne; mayor; morning; scaffold; town cache: 34243.txt plain text: 34243.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 35401 author: Stevens, Francis title: Friend Island date: None words: 5099 flesch: 89 summary: Nelson Smith.' It all looked quite new and recent, as if Nelson Smith hadn't more than a few hours before he wrote and nailed it there. keywords: anita; island; man; nelson; sea; smith; woman cache: 35401.txt plain text: 35401.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 36841 author: None title: Mundus Foppensis: The Fop Display'd date: None words: 4243 flesch: 86 summary: Besides, it is a_ _general Desire in Men, that their Ladies should keep Home, and therefore it is but reasonable they should make their Homes as delightful as it is possible; and therefore this Bubble of an Inventory is not to be thought the Effect of general Repentance, among your Servants and Adorers, but the capricious Malice of some Person envious of the little Remunerations of your Kindnesses for being disbandded from your Conversation; little indeed, considering the Rewards due to your Merits, otherwise it would be the greatest Injustice upon Earth for the Men to think of reforming the Women before they reform themselves, who are ten times worse in all respects, as you will have sufficient to retort upon them when you come by and by to the Matter._ _ In Answer to a late Pamphlet, Entituled, Mundus Muliebris: Or, The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlocked, _&c._ keywords: beau; dressing; fit; french; ladies; lady; names; thing; times; use; women cache: 36841.txt plain text: 36841.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 3722 author: Stratton-Porter, Gene title: A Daughter of the Land date: None words: 130015 flesch: 90 summary: Said Adam: Start a bank account! Said Kate: Kate Bates followed the narrow footpath rounding the corner of the small country church, as the old minister raised his voice slowly and impressively to repeat the command he had selected for his text. keywords: adam; agatha; baby; bates; bed; children; coming; course; day; ellen; eyes; face; family; father; fine; george; girl; going; good; hat; head; heart; help; holt; home; house; jardine; john; kate; land; life; long; look; man; money; morning; mother; mrs; nancy; nancy ellen; place; polly; right; robert; room; saw; school; thing; thought; time; way; woman; work; years cache: 3722.txt plain text: 3722.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 38551 author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins title: The Crux: A Novel date: None words: 55069 flesch: 86 summary: Said I got drunk, I warrant! For the past five years, Mrs. Pettigrew had made her home with the Lanes. keywords: bellair; cloud; come; dear; doctor; dykeman; elder; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; grandma; hale; heart; home; house; lady; lane; life; man; men; mind; miss; morton; mrs; new; orella; pettigrew; right; room; skee; susie; think; thought; time; vivian; woman; years cache: 38551.txt plain text: 38551.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 41256 author: Hays, Mary title: Memoirs of Emma Courtney date: None words: 65273 flesch: 62 summary: But when mind has given dignity to natural affections; when reason, culture, taste, and delicacy, have combined to chasten, to refine, to exalt (shall I say) to sanctity them--Is there, then, no cause to complain of rigor and severity, that such minds must either passively submit to a vile traffic, or be content to relinquish all the endearing sympathies of life? In delineating the character of Emma Courtney, I had not in view these fantastic models: I meant to represent her, as a human being, loving virtue while enslaved by passion, liable to the mistakes and weaknesses of our fragile nature.--Let those readers, who feel inclined to judge with severity the extravagance and eccentricity of her conduct, look into their own hearts; and should they there find no record, traced by an accusing spirit, to soften the asperity of their censures--yet, let them bear in mind, that the errors of my heroine were the offspring of sensibility; and that the result of her hazardous experiment is calculated to operate as a _warning_, rather than as an example.--The philosopher--who is not ignorant, that light and shade are more powerfully contrasted in minds rising above the common level; that, as rank weeks take strong root in a fertile soil, vigorous powers not unfrequently produce fatal mistakes and pernicious exertions; that character is the produce of a lively and constant affection--may, possibly, discover in these Memoirs traces of reflection, and of some attention to the phænomena of the human mind. keywords: affection; augustus; chapter; character; conduct; day; emma; eyes; family; feel; feelings; friend; hand; happiness; harley; heart; house; length; letter; life; love; man; mind; moment; montague; morton; mother; mrs; nature; present; principles; reason; room; situation; soul; spirits; state; tender; time; truth; virtue; woman; world cache: 41256.txt plain text: 41256.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 51150 author: Tenn, William title: Venus is a Man's World date: None words: 8097 flesch: 91 summary: I've always said that even if Sis is seven years older than me--and a girl besides--she don't always know what's best. Now you be careful, Ferdinand, Sis called after me as she opened a book called _Family Problems of the Frontier Woman_. keywords: brown; butt; earth; ferdinand; law; man; men; right; sis; venus; way cache: 51150.txt plain text: 51150.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 59283 author: Holley, Marietta title: Josiah Allen on the Woman Question date: None words: 34143 flesch: 77 summary: Men will resoom their heaven-born station as rulers and protectors of the weaker sect, and females will sink down agin into hern, lookin' up to man as their nateral gardeens and masters. But I must say that all the while riled up as she wuz inside of her, she kep' knittin' away on my indigo blue sock, and kep' makin' honorable exceptions of good men and smart men. keywords: 'em; agin; bein; betsy; day; feelin; female; git; good; head; home; jest; josiah; kep; look; man; mind; petickulars; right; round; samantha; sect; sez; sez samantha; sime; simon; talk; things; think; thought; time; uncle; want; way; wife; wimmen; wimmen wuz; woman; work; wuz; wuzn't cache: 59283.txt plain text: 59283.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 59514 author: Reynolds, Mack title: After Some Tomorrow date: None words: 5378 flesch: 91 summary: By time things cleared we were divided as we are now, in clans. The point is that we've got to change the basis of clan society. keywords: alan; clan; husband; sally; vivian; women cache: 59514.txt plain text: 59514.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 63477 author: Kella, Lu title: Image of Splendor date: None words: 4978 flesch: 85 summary: An innocent child, Mr. President snapped, obviously kidnapped by those two idiotic Earthmen there! Oh, no, Grandpapa, Trillium said swiftly; I stole away all by myself, and Mr. O'Rielly and Callahan have been very helpful. Anything else now, Berta? I should like, Grandmamma President Berta said charmingly, that Mr. O'Rielly and Mr. Callahan be suitably rewarded for assisting our revolution better than they knew. keywords: burner; callahan; earth; o'rielly; president; trillium; venus; woman cache: 63477.txt plain text: 63477.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 7833 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha on the Woman Question date: None words: 29890 flesch: 80 summary: Good men and good women, each fillin' their different spears in life, but banded together for the overthrow of evil, the uplift of the race. Errents full of truth and justice and eternal right? He said he knew they wuz jest runnin' over with them qualities, but happy as it would make him to do 'em, he had to refuse owin' to the fur more important matters he had named, and the many, many other laws and preambles that he hadn't time to name over to me. keywords: agin; bein; children; day; errents; eyes; git; goin'; good; help; home; jest; josiah; justice; law; laws; lorinda; love; meetin; ort; parade; polly; right; round; serepta; sez; sot; things; thought; time; want; way; wimmen; woman; world; wuz cache: 7833.txt plain text: 7833.txt