"The model secretary should put as much care into her appearance as into her typing. **For ultimately her job is to make her boss look good**: to perform all the dull chores so that her boss is free to apply his mind to those matters of business that all know are more suited to the masculine brain. – From: Modern Secretary (pamphlet, published circa 1939)" ([Location 46](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C5GYQ94Y&location=46)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[feminism]], [[client-service]], [[law-firm-business]] **Source** -- [[20250424015611 - B - Mr Einstein's Secretary]]