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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XVI
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But of course I don't mean to say that my work is too hard.
All I mean is, that I don't see why any one should _make_ work, and why life shouldn't be as full of enjoyment as possible.' 'Monica, you have got these ideas from those people at Chelsea.

That is exactly why I don't care for you to see much of them.

I utterly disapprove of--' 'But you are mistaken.

Miss Barfoot and Miss Nunn are all for work.
They take life as seriously as you do.' 'Work?
What kind of work?
They want to make women unwomanly, to make them unfit for the only duties women ought to perform.

You know very well my opinions about that kind of thing.' He was trembling with the endeavour to control himself, to speak indulgently.
'I don't think, Edmund, there's much real difference between men and women.


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