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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: pages of his Scriptures; feeling that, it may be, she fits herself by each
increase of knowledge for she knows not what duties towards the world, in
the years to come. It is this consciousness of great impersonal ends, to
be brought, even if slowly and imperceptibly, a little nearer by her
action, which gives to many a woman strength for renunciation, when she
puts from her the lower type of sexual relationship, even if bound up with
all the external honour a legal bond can confer, if it offers her only
enervation and parasitism; and which enables her often to accept poverty,
toil, and sexual isolation (an isolation even more terrible to the woman
than to any male), and the renunciation of motherhood, that crowning
beatitude of the woman's existence, which, and which alone, fully
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