“People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.”
Alice Duer Miller“I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. ”
Alice Duer Miller“Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.”
Alice Duer Miller“Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others”
Alice Duer Miller“People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.”
Alice Duer Miller“People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.”
Alice Duer Miller“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.”
Alice Duer Miller“Is it true that the English government is calling on women to do work abandoned by men?Yes, it is true.Is not a woman's place the home?No, not when men need her services outside the home.Will she never be told again that her place is the home?Oh, yes, indeed.When?As soon as men want their jobs back again.”
Alice Duer Miller, Are Women People? a Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times“When men in Congress come to blows at somemthing someone said,I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red;But if two women disagree, with very little noise,It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.”
Alice Duer Miller, Are Women People? a Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times“Mother, what is a Feminist?""A feminist, my daughter,Is any woman now who caresTo think about her own affairsAs men don't think she oughter.”
Alice Duer Miller, Are Women People? a Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times“We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too,But very human beings, human just as much as you.It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublimeWhen you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.”
Alice Duer Miller, Are Women People? a Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times