Status Updates From Herland

‘ "It's impossible!" he would insist. "Women cannot cooperate-it's against nature." We urged the obvious facts: Just show me a combination of male creatures, bird, bug, or beast, that works as well, will you? Or one of our masculine countries where the people work together as well as they do here! I tell you, women are the natural co-operators, not men!" ‘

‘These women, whose idea of motherhood was the dominant note of their whole culture, were strikingly deficient in what we call "femininity." This led me very promptly to the conviction that those "feminine charms" we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process.‘

Unrelated to my progress on this book but I apologize, I’m about to blow up your feed adding stuff to my TBR