vollmachtsbrief

Updated: July 3, 2026

I remembered how some one had quoted her as saying, "Any woman can be a wife or mother, but this is my work alone." I, too, had my gift: but one. But again the quick shiver of ecstasy ran through me; it was my power, my wand with which to touch the world, my "Vollmachtsbrief zum Glücke": was I to give it unused back to God?

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864