Men try to keep them there--but it's a losing game nowadays.

('Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests'-- but we cannot fail to see that when Mother Fox has reared her puppies she sends them off about their own business and doesn't know them any more--likewise Mother Bird does the same.

Nature has no sentiment.) We have, because we cultivate artificial feelings--we imagine we 'love,' when we only want something that pleases us for the moment.

To live, as you say, for husband and children would make a woman a slave--a great many women are slaves--but they are beginning to get emancipated--the woman with the gold hair, whom you so much admire, is emancipated." Manella gave a slight disdainful movement of her head.
"That only means she is free to do as she likes"-- she said--"To marry or not to marry--to love or not to love.

I think if she loved at all, she would love very greatly.