In either case, she charges her dissatisfaction to the nature of her business.

What has come to her is a common human experience, the discovery that nothing is quite what you expected it to be, that if hope is to be even halfway realized, it will be by courage and persistency.

It is not the woman's business that is at fault; it is the faulty handling of it and the human difficulty in keeping heart when things grow hard.

What she needs is a strengthening of her wavering faith in her natural place in the world, to see her business as a profession, its problems formulated and its relations to the work of society, as a whole, clearly stated.
Quite as great an injustice to her as the belittling of her business has been the practice, also for campaigning purposes, of denying her a part in the upbuilding of civilization.

There was a time "back of history," says one of the popular leaders in the Woman's movement, "when men and women were friends and comrades--but from that time to this she (woman) has held a subsidiary and exclusively feminine position.