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Public Activity m
work needs woman. The woman incapable
of work always falls into degrading depend-
ence in one form or another, sometimes the
most degrading of all—marriage as a means
of support. The woman disinclined to work
fills the vacancy in her life with a cult of
dilettanteism, nonsense, and adventures of
which the most dangerous is marriage for
pastime. Hence it is not woman's work that
I deplore. But I think the emphasis ought to
be laid on the kind of work. I pity the women
who have no choice, but who are forced by
want to accept the first best work offered
. . . but I attack those women who in peace
and quiet may choose their life vocation, and
who yet do not give a thought to so choosing,
that the womanly in their nature may find
expression in their work. Nature corrects
abuses of liberty, but slowly and seriously."
What Ellen Key really has said and what
she means is that since emancipation is now
as good as accomplished for unmarried women,
let us use it rightly in accordance with woman's
nature.
The essential difference that exists between
man and woman cannot be obliterated. The
agitators for women's emancipation go too far
when they speak of absolute equality between
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