"A whiff of air as the door behind her opened to admit a passenger caught her nostrils, and she slipped into the night before. Half guiltily she lingered a moment at the verge of definite recalling. Was it wicked, when it was so beautiful? Even if it was! Slowly she let herself down into the pool of memory, amazed that she could thrill so at things cool over night. Through the memories came, somehow, the last glance Mary had given her, and swift, uncalled pictures of Clark, the boy with whom she went occasionally to dances. The car's jerk as it swung into a switch aroused her, and she hurried off and up the short block to her home, whipping on an air of great nonchalance as she ran up the steps."
Hull has an amazing article the same year in The Psychoanalytic Review called The Long Handicap.
"It is interesting to observe some of the idiosyncrasies of the very modern woman who is intent upon setting herself free; they follow closely Adler's theories of compensation. The sense of inferiority to the man tends to rouse the opposite impulse of agressiveness, self-assertiveness, the will to be superior. This finds expression in the adoption of some of the incidental male perquisites—and may account for some of the delight in cigarettes, in cocktails, in short hair, in masculinized attire. On the other hand, it is easy to explain the activities of the anti-feminists in similar terms. In their case, the minderwertigkeit seeks its compensation in an idealizing of the very causes for the feeling. Instead of adopting and following certain masculine ideals, they seek the satisfaction of the child who gains approval through ready obedience. They exalt the attributes on which the social judgment of inferiority rests. They "make a cult of their weakness.""
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