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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: the female; the reception-room of the literary woman or female painter is
found continually frequented by men of her own calling; the woman-doctor
associates continually with and often marries one of her own confreres; and
as women in increasing numbers share the fields of labour with men, which
have hitherto been apportioned to them alone, the nature and strength of
the sympathy arising from common labours will be increasingly clear.
The sharing by men and women of the same labours, necessitating a common
culture and therefore common habits of thought and interests, would tend to
fill that painful hiatus which arises so continually in modern conjugal
life, dividing the man and woman as soon as the first sheen of physical
sexual attraction which glints only over the unknown begins to fade, and
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