“LUCAS MALET" ON THE GIRL IN SOCIETY
“Lucas Malet” has been expressing herself with frankness to an American interviewer. “Tho main drawback of American society,” she says, “is that tho young girl is of too much importance. I should like to see your influential men give more tone to society, as they do in England. Young girls are, of course, very pretty, and sweet, and charming; but it is not to be expected that they should ho intelligently interesting. Tho consequence is that when you grant them such an important place, men of thought and position come to regard society as beneath their dignity, unworthy of serious consideration.” “You don’t seem to have an especially high opinion of your own sex?” said the surprised interviewer. “Well,” said Lucas Malet, “the fact is that women can’t teach mo anything I don’t already know, being a woman myself, whereas men can teach me a great deal.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4646, 26 April 1902, Page 8 (Supplement)
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