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The Joys of Being a Woman

Winifred Margaretta Kirkland

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I wanted raiment all my own, dully at first, then fiercely.

No one who has passed from a previous condition of servitude to the dignity of his own earnings will ever forget the pride of his first self-bought clothes. At last one is one’s self and belongs not to another man’s coat, or another woman’s gown. It is a period of expansion, of pride: when one’s clothes are altogether one’s own, one’s pauper days are done. But it is best for sympathy not to forget them, not only for the sake of the pauper, but for the sake of the plutocrat we are on the verge of becoming; for our sensations in regard to old clothes are about to enter a new phase; we are about to undergo the ordeal of being ourselves the donors of our own old clothes.

It was not alone for the new coat’s intrinsic sake that we desired it; we coveted still more the experience of giving it away when we were done with it. There is no more soul-warming sensati. . . Read More