"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors and holidays; to be Whiteley within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes and books, to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children 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
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Psalm 139-a repost of an old post :-)
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Ahem...AMEN!
ReplyDeleteLeave it to Chesterton to come up with that. Who brought that to your attention? I have a guess.
ReplyDeleteWow, Judy. This post is totally awesome. Wow.
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