one-ideaness

Updated: May 2, 2025

But that which is ordinarily a fault may, on occasion of extraordinary stress, become the most transcendent and the most admirable of virtues. I think of this last war and of the share our women and the women of other lands have played in it. No one caviled nor complained at the one-ideaness of womankind while the world was in a welter of woe and slaughter.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!'