Jessamyn West Quote

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

The Life I Really Lived, part 7 (1979)

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?