Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Interpretation
As women age and gain experience, they become more resilient and less susceptible to control by societal expectations.
This quote highlights the idea that while younger women may still be molded or influenced by external pressures and challenges, older women possess a strength and independence that makes them resistant to such control. It reflects the journey of growth, self-discovery, and the complexities of womanhood, suggesting that wisdom and age lead to a fierce autonomy that cannot easily be swayed.
In practice
This quote can be used in a women's empowerment workshop to inspire confidence in older women.
But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.
. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.
A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.
And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me
I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.
In the gap between thoughts_x000D_ nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.
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