where did the name steel magnolias come from
Steel Magnolias The title suggests the main female characters can be both as delicate as the magnolia flower, and as tough as steel.[3]
Iron cage The original German term is stahlhartes GehÃ¤use; this was translated into "iron cage", an expression made familiar to English language speakers by Talcott Parsons in his 1930 translation of Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.[2] This choice has been questioned recently by scholars who prefer the more direct translation: "shell as hard as steel".[2][3]