Of the ease we can never share,
And bid us go back to the depths again,
Like Lazarus to his lair.
Bondwomen
By Dora Marsden
(English contemporary. Editor “The Freewoman,” a brilliant, radical feminist journal. In “The Freewoman.”)
Feminists would hold that it is neither desirable nor necessary for women, when they become mothers, to leave their chosen, money-earning work for any length of time. The fact that they do so, largely rests on tradition which has to be worn down. In wearing it down vast changes must take place in social conditions in housing, nursing, kindergarten—in the industrial world and in the professional.
By Belle Lindner Israels
(From Introduction to “The Upholstered Cage.”)
We know now that the girl without occupation is the girl without mental growth.