The Archive · 1934

What of the Future?

What then of women's higher life land her future in the light liber, own self-expression and higher self-veallzation? Two GeFfaan: Women answer this question. One maintains that women's personality, shall, under these conditions, find ull release and. through the experience of the satisfaction which liber special nature demands, she is to regain her soul, The other says "Women are to become cows, Just Jcows" and believes that the progress fof German women toward their fullest selfhood as persons world of persons is to be retarded: from fifty to a hundred years, Quite certainly, an exclusively public Tite fail to Dung ull satisfaction (0 the majority of -women, Te is equally. "true that iby bereft of all outside interests. and lived in and for a family is stultitying. Privileged women of means cam. plan for themselves, Inasfar Dresent limitations permit, s blend: fof there two ways of life, One loriens example of this 1 discovered in the person of a woman of [creat charm, fine intellectual endow= ment and great vision, Not only is she a writer and lecturer of ote but also the mother of five chifdven, She said "Every day T thank that T can have my five children and my work." It is not 20° clour how this privilege can be vouchtatfed to the underprivileged, For the ferent majority, life will' held stich possibility.' It. seems apparent therefore that fo German women ix Jcoming an_ opportunity of testing anew the full worth of a thoroughly, domesticated life, Whether totalitarianism and, alt includes, or individualism coakes for the highest life of all is philosophical and human profi not yet solved. And more specifial ly, whether or not National Soci lism is to mark the advance #6 or retreat from women's highest Bolt Thood, is a question which only: the Passing years enn answer,

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