How can it be a large career to tell other people about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.
G.K. Chesterton, ”The Emancipation of Domesticity”, What’s Wrong with the World (1910)
G.K. Chesterton, ”The Emancipation of Domesticity”, What’s Wrong with the World (1910)
I'm thinking I might need to read this book. Once again I found this on Solstice Letters. I haven't exactly figured out that blog, but it is full of great quotes.
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