“Far away in the thirties and forties she (the girl you want to be) is waiting her turn. Her body, brain, her soul are in your girlish hands. She cannot help herself. What will you leave for her? … Will you throw away her inheritance?”

As quoted in M. Leonard, The Chaperon and Housemother, Builders of Youth (1947), p. 51

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