Discussion on Women's Roles and Rights

A woman's equal rights lie in the fact that she is treated with the high regard

she

deserves in those areas of life assigned to her by nature.

Women still respected brave, daring, and determined men, and men had always

admired and been attracted to feminine women.

These were the two opposites which attracted each other in life,

and if good fortune would have it that these two people find each

other,

then the question of equal rights became superfluous, for it had

already been answered by nature. It was no longer equal

rights, but a single unity.

Man and woman represented two intrinsically separate natures.

In men, reason was dominant, but more stable than

this was the emotion evidenced in women.

When I returned from prison after thirteen months of imprisonment, when the party

had been shattered, it was above all

female party comrades who had held the movement together.

They did not succumb to clever or

reason-oriented deliberation

but acted according to their hearts,

and they have stood by me emotionally until today.

If our opponents were to allege, "You want to degrade women by assigning to

them no

other task beyond providing children," he would reply that it is not a degradation

to a woman to become a mother, but the contrary, it

is her utmost elevation.