Excerpt from To Girls: A Budget of Letters
For years I have been considering in one form and another, the various problems which meet the American girl. I have thought about them much; and I have talked about them I fear even more. They have come to me through many channels. The long, confidential talks in which girls have poured out their perplexities to me have been among the most interesting experiences of my life. There have been other talks no less confidential but not so spontaneous where stern rebuke had to follow misconduct. Out of these two I have learned lessons I hope of comprehension of patience and of charity. I can claim no sort of originality for the theories of education of social life,, and of personal conduct which have gradually formed themselves in my mind, and made their way into my speech to girls. They have come simply as the answer to need, and have been constantly subject to change or to development. When it happened the other day that a member of a publishing house asked me if I was willing to write a small book for girls, my quick reply was that I could talk it, but I doubted if I could write it. In spite of my doubt, I have been persuaded to make the attempt.
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