Chesterton on a Woman's Role

I like G.K. Chesterton's defense of the role of women:

"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays;
to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes, and books;
to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene;
I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone?
No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute."
(From Chesterton's What's Wrong with the World.)

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