W. J. Z.

Let's Talk It Over

INTERVIEW BETWEEN MURIEL DRAPER AND MOTHER BLOOR

FEBRUARY 24, 1938

2:15

Thursday

Good afternoon....

Even the wise King Solomon has said that everything has its time, and this is certainly a time when the work of women is emerging as a vitally decisive factor in the affairs of this encouragingly troubled world.

I say encouraging, because when the ageless forces of destruction and construction are in sharp conflict, as they are at present, it means that people who in untroubled times are content to imagine -- or merely accept the idea of a more complete life for men and women everywhere, now where in the world feel impelled to do something about it -- go into action for it, rather than just feel - and think - deeply about it. This is very apt to cause trouble. ...

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For many decades women have been active about
the ways and means of securing an equal share with men in
the power to control the civilization they so equally pro-
duce, and now the ways and means of consolidating the gains
they have won against the destructive forces -- always tend-
ing to circumvent them -- are being fervently debated. This
is a matter of concern to all of us -- for women and for
society as a whole.

Every woman in America who works, whether she is
creating what is so often spoken of as a "work of art", --
whether she is re-searching the earth and the heavens for
more precise knowledge of physical life --, whether she is
making her productive way through the technical mazes of
industry, agriculture, business, professions,-- or is using
her skill in domestic, religious or political service, is
affected by the degree of security her work can procure for
her under our present laws and customs.