[What eight million women want by Rheta Childe Dorr]@TWC D-Link bookWhat eight million women want CHAPTER XI 3/16
She has not, like the progressive German and Russian woman, theories of political regeneration or of family reconstruction.
What she desires, what ideals she has formed, I think must fairly represent the desires and ideals of the great mass of women of the twentieth century. When we survey the activities the club women have engaged in, when we discover why they chose exactly these activities, we have a perfect philosophical understanding, not only of the modern woman mind, but of the cave woman mind and all the woman mind in between. The woman mind is the most unchangeable thing in the world.
It has turned on identically the same pivot since the present race began. Perhaps before. Turn back and count over the club women's achievements, the things they have chosen to do, the things they want.
Observe first of all that they want very little for themselves.
Even their political liberty they want only because it will enable them to get other things--things needed, directly or indirectly, by children.
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