The Girl Wanted

A whole future can look like a mountain—until Nixon Waterman points out that you only have to live it one minute at a time. “Just this minute,” he tells the girl he addresses, is already in her hands.

Published in 1919, this collection opens like a friendly conversation with a girl standing at the threshold of her future, in what Waterman calls the “women’s century.” He urges her to look beyond grand plans and notice the choices she can make now: how she thinks, how she treats others, and whether she can brighten someone’s path. Each small act, he suggests, helps build the life—and the woman—she is becoming. If the next minute matters so much, what might she make of it?

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