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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: in a line with them, showing how vital, spontaneous, and wholly organic and
unartificial is its nature.
The fact that, at one point, it manifests itself in a passionate, and at
times almost incoherent, cry for an accredited share in public and social
duties; while at another it makes itself felt as a determined endeavour
after self-culture; that in one land it embodies itself mainly in a
resolute endeavour to enlarge the sphere of remunerative labour for women;
while in another it manifests itself chiefly as an effort to reco-ordinate
the personal relation of the sexes; that in one individual it manifests
itself as a passionate and sometimes noisy struggle for liberty of personal
action; while in another it is being fought out silently in the depth of
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