As I had
shamed Amanda. . . ."
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"There are no such women." He had written this in and struck it
out, and then at some later time written it in again. There it
stayed now as his last persuasion, but it set White thinking and
doubting. And, indeed, there was another sheet of pencilled broken
stuff that seemed to glance at quite another type of womanhood.
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"It is clear that the women aristocrats who must come to the
remaking of the world will do so in spite of limitations at least as
great as those from which the aristocratic spirit of man escapes.
These women must become aristocratic through their own innate
impulse, they must be self-called to their lives, exactly as men
must be; there is no making an aristocrat without a predisposition
for rule and nobility. And they have to discover and struggle
against just exactly the limitations that we have to struggle
against. They have to conquer not only fear but indulgence,
indulgence of a softer, more insidious quality, and jealousy--
proprietorship. . . .
"It is as natural to want a mate as to want bread, and a thousand
times in my work and in my wanderings I have thought of a mate and
desired a mate.
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