human
Take a man's work, said Mrs. Van Vechten, pouring herself a second cup of tea.
gpt
He chooses it; then he is allowed to go at it with absolute freedom. He isn't hampered by the dull, petty details of life that hamper us. He----
human
Details! My dear, there you are right, broke in Mrs. Bullen. Two men, first Mrs. Bullen's father and then her husband, had seen to it that neither the biting wind of adversity nor the bracing air of experience should ever touch her.
gpt
Details! Sometimes I feel as if I were smothered by them. Servants, and the house, and now these relief societies----
human
The whole fault is the social system, she declared.
gpt
Because of it men have been able to take the really interesting work of the world for themselves. They've pushed the dull jobs off onto us.
human
You're right, Cornelia, cried Mrs. Bullen. She really had nothing to say, but she hated not saying it.
gpt
I've always thought, she went on pensively,
human
The trouble with us women is we're blind and deaf, she said slowly.
gpt
We talk a lot about men's work and how they have the best of things in power and freedom, but does it occur to one of us that a man _pays_ for power and freedom? Sometimes I think that not one of the women of our comfortable class would be willing to pay what our men pay for the power and freedom they get.
human
What do they pay?
gpt
There's something rather wonderful going on out here, she called.
human
I wish you'd all come and look.