They must know themselves and their own powers in order to exercise control and direction on the current of their lives.

The complaint made of many women is that they are wanting in self-control, creatures of impulse, erratic, irresponsible, at the mercy of chance influences that assume control of their lives for the moment, subject to "nerves," carried away by emotional enthusiasm beyond all bounds, and using a blind tenacity of will to land themselves with the cause they have embraced in a dead-lock of absurdity.
Such is the complaint.

It would seem more pardonable if this tendency to extremes and impulsiveness were owned to as a defect.

But to be erratic is almost assumed as a pose.

It is taken up as if self-discipline were dull, and control reduced vitality and killed the interest of life.