How can it be a large career ...

How can it be a large career to tell other people\'s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one\'s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman\'s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

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