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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: reproducing and blending with each other in each generation. The human
female is bound organically in two ways to the males of her society:
collaterally they are her companions and the co-progenitors with her of the
race; but she is also the mother of the males of each succeeding
generation, bearing, shaping, and impressing her personality upon them.
The males and females of each human society resemble two oxen tethered to
one yoke: for a moment one may move slightly forward and the other remain
stationary; but they can never move farther from each other than the length
of the yoke that binds them; and they must ultimately remain stationary or
move forward together. That which the women of one generation are mentally
or physically, that by inheritance and education the males of the next tend
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