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From Sesame and Lilies 1865

• Lecture
• What is woman’s power?
  • The power to make a home a refuge
    • Companion for her husband
    • Leader for her children
    • Making a beautiful, comfortable, orderly home
  • The power to heal, redeem, guide and guard
  • The power for the State
    • Doing the same thing as for her home
• Men and women can’t be independent of one another, but that doesn’t mean he wants women to be servile and obedient: no no!
• His model is Shx heroines: wise, brave, patient, and incorruptible above all
• Men are active, progressive, defensive, and subject to danger and temptation, whereas women are protected from danger and therefore will order, arrange, decide, and JUDGE.
• Women create homes impenetrable to rude outside world, its anxieties and hostilities
• Women are modest, self-renouncing, gentle, vital, peaceful, modest, hopeful, just, loving
• Education should be the same as boys’
  • Needs to create healthy mind and body
  • Good health and free heart
  • Knowledge is to help her feel and judge, not for collecting knowledge in and of itself
  • Can’t be frivolous, stupid education, but just as serious as boys’
• Avoid novel reading if it will make daily life seem uninteresting and make her crave the unusual, the morbid, etc
• Remember the “women, there isn’t a war you are not responsible for” stuff b/c she hasn’t hindered the fighting instinct
• He wants to say that woman’s separate sphere is as important to the State as the State itself: separation does not to him mean that it’s degraded or less important: instead, it “fixes” what’s wrong with the outside (I would say that it’s a kind of complacency that lets bad things happen outside: just the kind of reaction Ruskin fights AGAINST on other fronts. Remember in Unto this Last when he says charity and alms won’t do a thing if there isn’t justice.)