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The Odd Women

CHAPTER VI
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By taking up the proud position that a woman must be altogether independent of sexual things, you damage your cause.

Let us be glad if we put a few of them in the way of living single with no more discontent than an unmarried man experiences.' 'Surely that's an unfortunate comparison,' said Rhoda coldly.

'What man lives in celibacy?
Consider that unmentionable fact, and then say whether I am wrong in refusing to forgive Miss Royston.

Women's battle is not only against themselves.

The necessity of the case demands what you call a strained ideal.


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