Youth_ Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene - G. Stanley Hall

are more limited in range though no less intense. It is this stage in woman which
is most unintelligible to man and even unrealized to herself. It is the echoes from
it that make vast numbers of mothers pursue the various branches of culture,
often half secretly, to maintain their position with their college sons and
daughters, with their husbands, or with society.