Word: dictatrix
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Absolute Woman. In letter No. 11, Lawrence became more emphatic. "You must work out the idea of a new state," he insisted, underlining the word "must" 15 times. Lawrence suggested that in addition to a male "Dictator" the new state have a female "Dictatrix" too, in fairness to the female population. The ultimate aim, he continued with passionate wooliness, was "a perfect government" dedicated to "the highest good of the soul, of the individual, the fulfillment in the Infinite, in the Absolute...
...unthinkable because of the ideas about women prevailing among the unreconstructed Chinese. Mrs. Sun, "Mother of the Chinese Republic," gained that title exclusively as the wife of Dr. Sun and is no more likely to germinate Presidentially at Wuchang than is the widow of Lenin apt to become dictatrix of Soviet Russia, where she is respected but not obeyed...
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