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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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72 The Century of the Child
entirely to another being, were to become
mothers. Their children would be more un-
fortunate than they themselves.
Many women like these are to be found to-
day, and if things remain as they are, they are
bound to increase in numbers. In some of
them, however, the maternal instinct is not
dead, but only dormant. Modern women with
their capacity for psychic analysis, with their
physical and psychical refinement, are often
repelled by the crudeness, the ignorance, or
the importunities of man’s nature. The whole
factor of love in the being of these women is
shrivelled up as a bud that has never blos-
somed, and in enthusiasm for a duty, or for a
woman friend, they find an expression for that
sacrifice whose real aim they deny or overlook,
a something which ends often by avenging it-
self in a tragic way.
I am simply insisting that every woman, who
has not yet ceased to desire motherhood, has
duties as a girl, and still more as a woman, to
the unborn generation from which she cannot
free herself without absolute selfishness. This
selfishness is often disguised under a great im-
pulse, an impulse which, like that of the pre-
servation of the species, masters existence. I
mean the impulse of self-protection. But it

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