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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: own hair or attire herself, and appeared absolutely to have lost all power
of compelling herself to do anything which was at the moment fatiguing or
displeasing, as all labour is apt to be, however great its ultimate reward.
In a life of twenty-eight years this woman had probably not contributed one
hour's earnest toil, mental or physical, to the increase of the sum total
of productive human labour. Surrounded with acres of cultivable land, she
would possibly have preferred to lie down and die of hunger rather than
have cultivated half an acre for food. This is an extreme case; but the
ultimate effect of parasitism is always a paralysis of the will and an
inability to compel oneself into any course of action for the moment
unpleasurable and exhaustive.)
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