How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #7
""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." (11.8.17)
Ella Stowbody is quite certain that women should never become involved in politics because this is a subject only proper for men. She worries that if women tried to act like men, they would lose all the "feminine" charms that make them appealing. It's safe to say that Carol Kennicott disagrees.
Quote #8
"See how scared that baby is. Needs some woman like you." (15.8.13)
Will Kennicott knows that Carol has her own dreams, but he still thinks that as a woman, it's her natural purpose in life to take care of babies. This seems like a thought that won't go away in one generation, and that's why Carol feels she can only look forward to a future in which people don't think this way anymore.
Quote #9
"I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers." (18.1.20)
When Carol recommends a play for the Gopher Prairie Dramatic Club, the others fear that the play she's chosen is too immoral for a small-town audience. Some even think that Carol is ignorant of the immorality in the play simply because her womanly brain can't fully understand it. This is exactly the kind of thinking Carol is striving to overcome throughout this book.