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Hindie Wakes 233
long as I ve to live my own life I don t see why I
shouldn t choose what it s to be.
Unheard of, is it not, that a Fanny should re
fuse to be made a
"
good woman," and that she
should dare demand the right to live in her own
way? It has always been considered the most
wonderful event in the life of a girl if a young
man of wealth, of position, of station came into
her life and said,
"
I will take you as my wife until
death do us part."
But a new type of girlhood is in the making.
We are developing the Fannies who learn in the
school of life, the hardest, the crudest and at the
same time the most vital and instructive school.
Why should Fanny marry a young man in order to
become
"
good," any more than that he should
marry her in order to become good? Is it not be
cause we have gone on for centuries believing that
woman s value, her integrity and position in so
ciety center about her sex and consist only in her
virtue, and that all other usefulness weighs naught
in the balance against her
"
purity
"
? If she dare
express her sex as the Fannies do, we deny her in
dividual and social worth, and stamp her fallen.
The past of a man is never questioned: no
one inquires how many Fannies have been in his
life. Yet man has the impudence to expect the
Fannies to abstain till he is ready to bestow on
them his name.
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