believe that you altogether understand how to carry it out.
To get at the bottom of things—you want to be just a natural, normal
human being. You want to live, to grow, to expand like a flower. How
then is this most easily accomplished? Simply this, to be what nature or
God or the power back of the universe intended for you to be. What then
is your place in the universe, and what is your relation to it? You are
by God’s grace a woman; then the greatest thing you can do is to be a
woman. But what does it mean to be a woman? To love, to create, to
protect, to uplift, and to purify. What do these words mean? You can
love the out-of-doors, you can love books, music, art, people, all the
world, everything your heart desires. All that you love you can create
by writing, by making things grow, by building and constructing. You can
protect by being a mother to all those weaker than yourself who need
your help. You can uplift and purify by inspiring all you meet with
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The girl in the factory, the girl in college, the girl in her own home,
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