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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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has relatively few interests outside her family and third problems her home and her immediate circle. Usually there is none of the heady urgent need of the creative. That is just as well for individuals live more complacently and less torn without it, and fit more easily into their grooves without a struggle against connections and what is. A married woman, it would seem, ordinarily is not supposed to be anything within her own rights. Even as a full-bodied citizen in good standing she is just "and wife" on a double passport issued by the United States government - a likely "appendage to the Mr of the family. And yet we would have the effrontery to criticize the attitude of a Hitler whose original adage for all of the feminine sex without exception is "Kucha, kinder and kirche," but just recently the kirche and has been stressed somewhat less strongly. Traditionally a woman is generally supposed to establish a home for her man and manage it by order, cleanliness, serve well balanced meals regularly and promptly and rear her children to healthy minded and sturdy bodied individuals. Isn't it enough for her to do all these properly and well? In addition, she is supposed to keep the feet of her husband and her own placed correctly on the rungs of the social ladder to success. Exactly what is meant by the word success and what it would suggest to the mind of the average person, I am not sure. Whether it might symbolize being an effective stool-pigeon to those in the driver's seat; an entering wedge wherewith to exploit underlings by them in the larger unit. Whether it may be designated by social prestige money position or privilege. Whether it may be determined in material possessions, in the accumulations of dollars and cents as all too many would have us think. Whether it might not be more adequately explained as an influence that transmits a vision of a more noble existence in a far better world and by a greater race... Or whether it really may not be the effective accomplishment according to individual capacity and intelligence in the many fields of human
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has relatively few interests outside her family and third problems her home and her immediate circle. Usually there is none of the heady urgent need of the creative. That is just as well for individuals live more complacently and less torn without it, and fit more easily into their grooves without a struggle against connections and what is. A married woman, it would seem, ordinarily is not supposed to be anything within her own rights. Even as a full-bodied citizen in good standing she is just "and wife" on a double passport issued by the United States government - a likely "appendage to the Mr of the family. And yet we would have the effrontery to criticize the attitude of a Hitler whose original adage for all of the feminine sex without exception is "Kucha, kinder and kirche," but just recently the kirche and has been stressed somewhat less strongly. Traditionally a woman is generally supposed to establish a home for her man and manage it by order, cleanliness, serve well balanced meals regularly and promptly and rear her children to healthy minded and sturdy bodied individuals. Isn't it enough for her to do all these properly and well? In addition, she is supposed to keep the feet of her husband and her own placed correctly on the rungs of the social ladder to success. Exactly what is meant by the word success and what it would suggest to the mind of the average person, I am not sure. Whether it might symbolize being an effective stool-pigeon to those in the driver's seat; an entering wedge wherewith to exploit underlings by them in the larger unit. Whether it may be designated by social prestige money position or privilege. Whether it may be determined in material possessions, in the accumulations of dollars and cents as all too many would have us think. Whether it might not be more adequately explained as an influence that transmits a vision of a more noble existence in a far better world and by a greater race... Or whether it really may not be the effective accomplishment according to individual capacity and intelligence in the many fields of human
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