Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
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Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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