Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis

“What’s better than making a comfy home and bringing up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman.

I couldn’t shake hands with an undertaker!” “Why not? You’d be proud to shake hands with a great surgeon, just after he’d been carving up people’s bellies.”

we must oppose this movement of Mrs. Potbury’s to have the state clubs come out definitely in favor of woman suffrage. Women haven’t any place in politics. They would lose all their daintiness and charm if they became involved in these horrid plots and log-rolling and all this awful political stuff about scandal and personalities and so on.”

OMG 😱

She suddenly saw the foot-board of the bed as the footstone of the grave of love.