trust-to-luck

Updated: June 9, 2025

We do not believe that womanly women and manly men are most successfully made by way of silly, shoddy, sorry-for-themselves girlhoods, or lying, swaggering, loafing boyhoods; and it is the empty, the vulgar, the cheap, smart, trust-to-luck story, rather than the gory one, that we dislike. I am coming to the statement of what I believe to be the problem most demanding our study today.

Alice Isabel Hazeltine - Library Work with Children