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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: would never come to us as woman, "Cast in men's bodies; settle the thing
so!" Arbitration and compensation would as naturally occur to her as
cheaper and simpler methods of bridging the gaps in national relationships,
as to the sculptor it would occur to throw in anything rather than
statuary, though he might be driven to that at last!
This is one of those phases of human life, not very numerous, but very
important, towards which the man as man, and the woman as woman, on the
mere ground of their different sexual function with regard to reproduction,
stand, and must stand, at a somewhat differing angle. The physical
creation of human life, which, in as far as the male is concerned, consists
in a few moments of physical pleasure; to the female must always signify
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