They are becoming conscious of their personality.

That phrase may be cryptic; without consideration it may convey but little; yet it sums up the whole movement, is the very moon itself to the turning tide.

The woman who once becomes conscious of her own personality is in a fair way towards her own enfranchisement.

Away go the fettering conventions of home life, the chains of social hypocrisy are flung aside.

She rides out into the open air like the bird from the shattered cage, and if man, the marksman, does not bring her to earth before her fluttering wings are fully spread, then she is off--up into the deep, blue zenith of liberty! "I'm no more selfish than you who expect me to spend the money on you; in fact, I'm less selfish.