California's Daughter Quotes

“It will be hard for any writer who has travelled over the wonderful mountains and valleys of Caifornia . . . to imagine tragedy in a land of such exultant beauty.”
― Emily W. Leider, California's Daughter: Gertrude Atherton and Her Times

“In the public imagination and in reality, there was a link between the feminists and the Decadents. The New Woman, like the Decadent, subverted social norms and heightened sexual consciousness.”
― Emily W. Leider, California's Daughter: Gertrude Atherton and Her Times