James Joyce Quotes
Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. B. W. Huebsch, 1916, p. 241.
While Harvard had no female students, Professor Sargent was opining on the recent trend of women playing tennis, competing in swimming and gymnastics and some were actually playing basketball. He was considered a national expert on health and physical education. This speech may have set back female sports involvement by decades.
No employees report that they have ever had a case where a woman turned down a pay raise because she would then earn more than her husband. This may be the most unique suggestion of how to reduce divorce that has ever been made.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism.
