Woman's Profession

Women were not kept at home in order to keep them narrow; on the contrary, they were kept at home in order to keep them broad.... How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.... It was only by partly limiting and protecting the woman that she was enabled to play at five or six professions and so come near to God.

—G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World.