Status Updates From The Scarlet Letter

"She possessed an art that sufficed [...] to supply food for her thriving infant and herself. It was the art - then, as now, almost the only one within a woman's grasp - of needlework" (84)

So true, women's opportunities have been historically limited to the home 3

"Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle" (86)

OK Mr. Hawthorne nobody said THAT?!