Home to us women is our place of business that we never get
away from."
"I suppose," said the Girton Girl--to my surprise she spoke with
entire absence of indignation. As a rule, the Girton Girl stands
for what has been termed "divine discontent" with things in general.
In the course of time she will outlive her surprise at finding the
world so much less satisfactory an abode than she had been led to
suppose--also her present firm conviction that, given a free hand,
she could put the whole thing right in a quarter of an hour. There
are times even now when her tone suggests less certainty of her
being the first person who has ever thought seriously about the
matter. "I suppose," said the Girton Girl, "it comes of education.
Our grandmothers were content to fill their lives with these small
household duties. They rose early, worked with their servants, saw
to everything with their own eyes. Nowadays we demand time for
self-development, for reading, for thinking, for pleasure.
Household drudgery, instead of being the object of our life, has
become an interference to it. We resent it.
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