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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1855-1919

"A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters"

She lacked knowledge, balance, and wisdom; she had only love
and passion.
And you, madam, how about _your_ children?
They were born of a "dutiful" wife. You descended from your lofty
altitude unwillingly--only at duty's call. You are so "refined," yet you
are a loving mother and pose as the highest type of woman.
_God never made in his whole universe of worlds such a "duty" as
unwilling motherhood_. Motherhood without the call of sex for sex is
indecent--criminal. You, too, madam, _fell_.
That girl in yonder "home" your "charity" helped establish, who loved
unwisely, fell. Her fall was through love--yours through a legal
ceremony.
All the churches, all the religions and the laws of earth, cannot make
motherhood holy and right without the mutual mental, spiritual, and
physical union of two beings.
Heaven and earth _both_ must sanction a child's conception to produce a
"well-born" soul.
There is no greater sin on earth than the creation of a human life
without complete accord of the creators.
No wonder the world is full of miserable half-born beings, when mothers
like _you_ claim to be the Madonnas of earth.


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