Woman’s true function, as a citizen, in this world is:  to spur men on to high and noble action.  And this, quite unconsciously, she does.

Woman’s true function, as a woman, in the world is:  to evoke man’s most fervid emotions, and at the same time to keep them at their highest level.  And this she also does—­perhaps not quite so unconsciously.

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They err who call women illogical.  Feminine logic is inexorable.  But it proceeds per saltum.  It is man who has laboriously to reason step by step.

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The most wayward woman craves control:  To let a woman have her own way is interpreted by her as indifference.  And

The surest way to fail to please a woman is to let her do what she pleases.

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Woman is born to acting as the sparks fly upward.  And

What a woman really is, nobody knows, least of all herself. 
To see a woman as she really is, one must see her with her babe.  For

It is curious, but it is true, that not even before the passionate and accepted lover to whom she has utterly devoted herself can a woman bare her heart as can she to her babe.  Perhaps we may go so far as to say that

Motherhood always partially eclipses wife-hood: 

When the child comes, the man stands aside.  For

It is not within the capability of man to evoke or to develop the totality of woman.  There are feminine potentialities he is powerless to awake.  There is a portion of womanliness always hidden from him.  To her babe alone she opens the innermost recesses of her soul.  For him she wears no masks, affect no accent, plays no part.  Even her features take on a different and unique expression before the offspring of her womb.  Never is she more womanly, never so strong, never so quite, never so self-contained, never so completely herself, and never so beautify when bending over her helpless infant son.  And naturally:  for say what one will,

Motherhood is the goal of womanhood.  And

Howsoever she comes by it, a woman’s burthen is always to her “That Holy
Thing”.  So

No one knows what a woman is like till she is a mother.  In other words

Motherhood reveals womanhood.  And, be it remembered,

There be childless women—­both spinsters and wives—­who could mother mankind in their bosoms.  Such women wield great influence.  For

Many a mere man there is has owed his all to a motherly woman.

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Nor speech, not restore, nor expression of feature, nor all combined, will ever reveal the real feelings of a woman.  To unbosom herself is impossible to woman.  Do not expect it, for

Definite and accurate utterance is not given to woman.

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The chief business of woman is:  first, to get married; second, to get others married.

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It is difficult to say which have played the greater havoc among men:  the women with too much conscience, or the woman with none.