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The Business of Being a Woman

CHAPTER I
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But she has rarely made it and kept it with full content.

Eve was a revoltee, so was Medea.

In every century they have appeared, restless Amazons, protesting and remolding.

Out of their uneasy souls have come the varying changes in the woman's world which distinguish the ages.
Society has not liked it--was there to be no quiet anywhere?
It is poor understanding that does not appreciate John Adams' parry of his wife Abigail's list of grievances, which she declared the Continental Congress must relieve if it would avoid a woman's rebellion.

Under the stress of the Revolution children, apprentices, schools, colleges, Indians, and negroes had all become insolent and turbulent, he told her.


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