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The Business of Being a Woman

CHAPTER III
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And _this has come about under the regime of the emancipated woman_.

Is she in no way responsible for it?
If she had kept the early ideals of the woman's part in democracy as clearly before her eyes as she has kept some of her personal wants and needs, could there have been so disastrous a condition?
Would she be the Uneasy Woman she is if she had kept faith with the ideals that forced her emancipation ?--if she had not substituted for them dreams of personal ambition, happiness, and freedom! The failure to fulfill your function in the scheme under which you live always produces unrest.

Content of mind is usually in proportion to the service one renders in an undertaking he believes worth while.
If our Uneasy Woman could grasp the full meaning of her place in this democracy, a place so essential that democracy must be overthrown unless she rises to it--a part which man is not equipped to play and which he ought not to be asked to play, would she not cease to apologize for herself--cease to look with envy on man's occupations?
Would she not rise to her part and we not have at last the "new woman" of whom we have talked so long?
Learning, business careers, political and industrial activities--none of these things is more than incidental in the national task of woman.
Her great task is to prepare the citizen.

The citizen is not prepared by a training in practical politics.

Something more fundamental is required.


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