This seemed to have been imbued in her by one of the nuns who was very holy and practiced self-mortification.
With the onset of her periods, and with the observation of the same in the other girls, this doctrine of female impurity was all the stronger impressed on her sensitive mind." It lapsed, however, from conscious memory and only came to the foreground in subsequent years with the exhaustion and fatigue of prolonged office work.

Then she married.

Now "she has an extreme abhorrence of women.

Woman, to the patient, is impurity, filth, the very incarnation of degradation and vice.

The house wash must not be given to a laundry where women work.