There is no reason why these women should be idle, miserable, selfish, or antisocial.

There are rich lives for them to work out and endless needs for them to meet.

But they are not the women upon whom society depends; they are not the ones who build the nation.

The women who count are those who outnumber them a hundred to one--the women who are at the great business of founding and filling those natural social centers which we call homes.
Humanity will rise or fall as that center is strong or weak.

It is the human core.
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