That is my intention, at any rate." "I don't think I have ever wished that I were a man," she said after a moment, "but I often find myself envying a man's opportunities." "Do not women have opportunities, too ?" he said.

"Certainly they have greatly to do with the determination of affairs." "Oh, yes," she replied, "it is the usual answer that woman's part is to influence somebody.

As for her own life, it is largely made for her.
She has, for the most part, to take what comes to her by the will of others." "And yet," said John, "I fancy that there has seldom been a great career in which some woman's help or influence was not a factor." "Even granting that," she replied, "the career was the man's, after all, and the fame and visible reward.

A man will sometimes say, 'I owe all my success to my wife, or my mother, or sister,' but he never really believes it, nor, in fact, does any one else.

It is _his_ success, after all, and the influence of the woman is but a circumstance, real and powerful though it may be.