women among you are of two classes. An educated class... which includes the doctor, the lawyer, the deputy, and the delegate to international congresses. And a very ignorant class...
— That is true... but the question of sex is no longer a problem for us... the difference between male and female in India is exactly the difference between one citizen and another... All work for one goal and a single mission... the building of the homeland, and labor for its interest, its national dignity, and its sovereignty, and for carrying it ever forward. We do not count the number of women doctors, lawyers, and judges so much as we count the services each one of them renders to her homeland... in this she is exactly like the man.
As for... us... Mrs. Kamala Devi answered my question, saying:
— Your Lebanon is very beautiful... I visited it eight years ago, that is, in 1948... and today I have noticed a tangible advance in woman's renaissance, in her progress, and in her share in raising humanity's towering edifice...
And now... I admired Mrs. Kamala Devi greatly... as has everyone who has seen her or heard her or heard of her... but — and I say it frankly — I did not love her.
For a person to move you... for you to act by his guidance... you
must admire him... and love him at one and the same time...
And after all this I found myself asking the reason: the reason that led Mrs. Kamala Devi to address my mind and not my heart. Is it that she is trying to renounce her fair sex, so fine and sensitive... neither granting its existence nor acknowledging it??..
Or is it because she so admires the other sex... that she tries to
imitate it in everything...
Or is it because the dry life of work and struggle has given her a certain roughness, sternness, and rigidity... which has raised a barrier between her and others??..
I leave the answer to these questions of mine... to everyone who met Mrs. Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay on her short visit to Lebanon... and admired her greatly... without loving her!
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