The Business of Being a Woman

her succeed in the task of making a man of herself—what about her?—what kind of a man does she become?

the start the woman takes her work more seriously than her masculine competitor.

For the normal woman the fulfillment of life is the making of the thing we best describe as a home—which means a mate, children, friends, with all the radiating obligations, joys, burdens, these relations imply.
This is nature's plan for her; but the home has got to be founded inside the imperfect thing we call society.

A woman rarely feels uncertainty about methods. She instinctively sees a way and follows it with assurance.

the fear of change is founded on the risk of losing what you have, on the certainty of losing much temporarily at least

What was to become of the country if women, "the most numerous and powerful tribe in the world," grew discontented?

Woman, by virtue of the business nature assigns her, has always been theoretically the maker and keeper of this necessary place of peace.

It is a disquieting phenomenon. Chronic self-discussion argues chronic ferment of mind, and ferment of mind is a serious handicap to both happiness and efficiency