To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours 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, theology and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it would narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Thee 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 because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.
G.K. Chesterton, 'On Being a Mother at Home...'
Doona, your functions are truly gigantic, your hygiene quite aristotlean, and your exhaust is mindblowing, not narrow. Your universe is one's own, and each minute, laborious.
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Doona, your functions are truly gigantic, your hygiene quite aristotlean, and your exhaust is mindblowing, not narrow. Your universe is one's own, and each minute, laborious.
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Doona, your functions are truly gigantic, your hygiene quite aristotlean, and your exhaust is mindblowing, not narrow. Your universe is one's own, and each minute, laborious.
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