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The Business of Being a Woman

CHAPTER VII
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The home has a power of projecting itself into the lives of those who go out from it.

It is where the girl does not carry away a sense of an uninterrupted relation--a certainty that she is a part of that group and that achievement, that she is only carrying on, enlarging, helping to extend, beautify, and ripen its work, that she is not homeless.
Nothing can so hold her in her isolation as that sense.
The Uneasy Woman of to-day who has fulfilled to the letter, as she understands it, the Woman's Business, is frequently heard to say: "My boys are in college; they do not need me.

My girls are married or at work, and they do not need me.

I have nothing to do.

My business is complete, I am retired, sidetracked.


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