We need to see
without confusion. Sometimes I wonder if we are not the colossal
failure of life--we women who have hardly begun to use the power God
put in our hands when He made us the mothers of sons and daughters--"
"But we've only been educated such a little while--most of us aren't
educated yet. I'm not." Her arms on my knees, Kitty looked up in my
face, in hers the dawning light of vision long delayed. "Men haven't
wanted us to think. They want to think for us."
"But ours is the first chance at starting men to thinking right.
Through babyhood and boyhood they are ours. If all women could
understand--"
"All women haven't got anything to understand with even if they wanted
to understand. Some who have sense don't want responsibility." Kitty
bit her lip. "I haven't wanted it. It's so much easier not--not to
have it. And now--now you've put it on me."
"When women know, they will not shirk. So many of us are children yet.
We've got to grow up." Stooping, I kissed her. "In Scarborough Square
I've learned to see it's a pretty wasteful world I've lived in.
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