“Why are Russian Jewesses different?”
“Many of them are idealist. Many live altogether by one or two ideas of Tolstoy.”
“Why do you smile condescendingly?”
“These ideas can lead only to revolution. I am not a revolutionary. While I admire everywhere those who suffer for their ideals.”
“You admit that Tolstoy has influenced Russian Jewesses. He got his ideas from Christ. So you say. I did not know he was religious.”
“It is a later development. But you remember Levin. But tell me, do you not consider that wife and mother is the highest position of woman?”
“It is neither high nor low. It may be anything. If you define life for women, as husbands and children, it means that you have no consciousness at all where women are concerned.”
“There is the evidence of women themselves. The majority find their whole life in these things.”
“That is a description, from outside, by men. When women use it they do not know what they say.”