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The Business of Being a Woman

CHAPTER VII
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That is, we do not square up by truth, but by the forms of truth.
The Woman's Business has always suffered from lack of facility in adapting itself to new forms of expression.

The natural task found, a method of handling it in a fashion sufficiently acceptable to prevent family revolts mastered, and the woman usually is as fixed as a star in its orbit.

She resents changes of method, new interpretations, and fresh expressions.

It is she, not man, who stands an immovable mountain in the path of militant feminism.
In this course she is following her nature.

An instinct more powerful than logic tells her that she must preserve the thing she is making, that center for which she is responsible, that place where her child is born and reared, where her mate retreats, to be reassured that the effort to which he has committed himself is worth while, where all the community to which she belongs is served and strengthened.


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