The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
Interpretation
True happiness is a joint effort that requires the collaboration of both men and women.
Lillian Wald emphasizes the importance of cooperation between genders in the pursuit of happiness. She suggests that organizing and achieving happiness in society is not the responsibility of just one gender, but rather a collective effort that involves active participation from both men and women.
In practice
This quote could be shared at a women's rights conference to highlight the need for gender collaboration.
Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.
From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women vulnerable.
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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