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" It saw in her, not the incarnation of the rosy moment, but the eternal sacrifice of woman, the tragedy of her abasement, her obedience to the world. "
The Divine Fire - Page 30
by May Sinclair - 1904 - 597 pages
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The Divine Fire

May Sinclair - 1904 - 620 pages
...Someone up there shouted her name—" Poppy — Poppy Grace ! " and Rickman shivered. To Rickman's mind the name was an outrage ; it reeked of popularity...itself in the intensity of its speed ; the little humming-top was sleeping. Poppy, as the span, seemed to be standing, her feet rooted, her body swaying...
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The Social Evil in Chicago

Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission - Prostitution - 1911 - 414 pages
...described by one writer as : " These dubious divinities of the gas light and the pavement represent the eternal sacrifice of woman, the tragedy of her abasement, her obedience to the world." To Men — A Closing Word. In closing this introduction the Commission desires to say one more word...
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The Social Evil in Chicago

Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission - Prostitution - 1911 - 414 pages
...described by one writer as : " These dubious divinities of the gas light and the pavement represent the eternal sacrifice of woman, the tragedy of her abasement, her obedience to the world." To Men — A Closing Word. In closing this introduction the Commission desires to say one more word...
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The Social evil in Chicago

Chicago. Vice Commission - 1911 - 412 pages
...a character in a recent work : "These dubious divinities of the gaslight and the pavement represent the eternal sacrifice of woman, the tragedy of her abasement, her obedience to the world." Attention is called to the recommendations of the Commission, page 55. Chapter VII. The Social Evil...
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The Woman Citizen's Library: Woman and the larger citizenship

Shailer Mathews - Politics, Practical - 1913 - 272 pages
...a character in a recent work: " These dubious divinities of the gaslight and the pavement represent the eternal sacrifice of woman, the tragedy of her abasement, her obedience to the world." " A generation which has gone through so many successive revolts against commercial aggression and...
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