And I have no reluctance whatever about admitting it.
Perhaps that fact gives me no right to dogmatize about the other sex,
but a considerable experience has left me in no doubt about the matter.
I do not mean for a moment that a great and useful career is not
possible to women quite apart from marriage. I do not forget that many
women have great powers of intellect in the exercise of which they are
living in a world apart from sex difference. But I believe it to be a
serious mistake for either man or woman to imagine that they have no
clamant sex instinct hidden within the depths of their personalities.
And if the instinct is there it can only be folly to try to obscure the
fact. It has to be reckoned with if life is to succeed. In many women
it only awakens after early youth is past. The exceptions in whom it
never awakens must be very few indeed. If the attempt has been made to
ignore it the subsequent troubles are apt to be only the more intense.
In this matter we are confronted with an unalterable decree of nature.
To rebel against it is only to be broken in the long run.
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