A woman's best years : the art of staying young / by W. Béran Wolfe.

  • W. Béran Wolfe
Date:
1935
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A woman's best years : the art of staying young / by W. Béran Wolfe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    best. Without love, it is far more difficult for most women. 5. WHAT PRICE CAREERS? The fifth problem confronts the woman with a career. For you business, art, the stage, a pro¬ fession, have been the things. You have not bothered with men nor let them annoy you with their senti¬ mental propositions of stodgy wifehood. You have stood on your own feet. You are a success in the eyes of the world; but in your own boudoir, after a full day in your shop or office, you have thrown your tired head on the pillow and wondered what it was alb about. You wept last night at a silly and sentimental film of a lost and neglected child. You may even have thought you would take a year’s holiday abroad, get a good strong man to collaborate with you in the sexual rites, have a child, and bring it up without the annoyance of having a father about. You catch yourself looking wistfully at little six-year-old boys riding their tri¬ cycles in the park. Was it worth while, this success that you bought at the price of your heritage as a woman? Adopt a child at your age? Go through all the nuisance of feeding and clothing and playing with a tot? Drown the idea of it in working harder,
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