They don't have to soil their hands, and you can dress a girl up in a skirt and shirt-waist so she looks pretty decent for about two weeks of her wages.

They don't care much about getting married unless they can strike some fellow with an automobile who can buy them better clothes than they can buy themselves.

What they hanker for is a flat or boarding-house where they won't have any housekeeping to do.

Housekeeping! Their notions of housekeeping don't go beyond boiling an egg on a gas range and opening up a sofa to sleep on.

You're an educated woman, Sylvia; what's going to come of all this ?" "It isn't just the fault of the girls that they do this, is it?
Near my school-house there are girls who stay at home with their mothers, and many of them are without any ambition of any kind.