Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is generally shut up in a house with a human being at the time when he asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren't. It would be odd if she retained any of the narrowness of a specialist. Now if anyone says that this duty of general enlightenment (even when freed from modern rules and hours, and exercised more spontaneously by a more protected person) is in itself too exacting and oppressive, I can understand the view. I can only answer that our race has thought it worth while to cast this burden on women in order to keep common-sense in the world. But when people begin to talk about this domestic duty as not merely difficult but trivial and dreary, I simply give up the question. For I cannot with the utmost energy of imagination conceive what they mean. When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery, all the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home, as a man might drudge at the Cathedral of Amiens or drudge behind a gun at Trafalgar. But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colorless and of small import to the soul, then as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean. To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors and holidays; to be Whiteley within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes. and books, to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.
G.K. ChestertonTags: women family motherhood mother catholicism catholic womanhood women-s-strength family-life
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: women philosophy
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
Elizabeth PetersTags: humor women amelia-peabody
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
Friedrich EngelsTags: women french marx engels
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.
Gilda RadnerThat's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.
Walter Dean MyersTags: women
Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
Thomas HardyTags: humor men women queens kings
Only cowards torture women.
Patricia BriggsOver a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.
Patricia BriggsTags: women
Women are sneaky.
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