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myself, “It is because women always have something else to do besides the business that is before the committee. They have something else that is equally important to them that they've got to do. They've got to get home and wash the baby's shirt, if nothing else. They've got to get home and get dinner. They've got to get home and make the family comfortable. They've got to get through with this thing that they're talking about and go on to the other things that are also their obligations in life or even an interest in life. So they can sit here all the evening, and will, wearing themselves out, getting tired, having sandwiches and coffee brought in, but not making any headway.”

That's the thing I've noticed over and over again - the capacity of men to pull a thing out unnecessarily, to drag an episode out, and drag it on and on and on rather than come to grips with it. I have also observed that women sometimes act too quickly in their anxiety to get it over with and get it done. The habit of prolonged deliberation for no reason at all except that they haven't got the nerve to take action is more on the male side than it is on the female side in my observation. That was the first time I noted it.

That kind of thing went on all the time. In the course of a week after one more talk with the Moreland Act Commissioner they brought themselves to agree that they had





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