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that Florence Allen ought to have been appointed to the Supreme Court. She's one of the very best of federal judges, one of the very top-notch federal judges.

She's a typical American woman, has all the other tastes and interests that any other American woman has. She never acquired a family so that she didn't have the problem of the obligations to children or to her husband, but she's the sort of woman who might just as well as not had a husband and family. I don't think it would have made the slightest difference in her career, because her career was something that sort of grew naturally out of her beginning activities.

So it was with most of the women I knew who had a real career, by which I mean a career in which you earned money, in which you were paid. A career in which you do public works voluntarily is not really a good basis of comparison, because you can do them or not as you choose. You can fall by the way if you're not professional. If things are too bad at home, you just don't go to the committee meeting today. But if you're professional, have undertaken to do a certain piece of work and accept pay for it, you make a contract. You cannot neglect your contract and your work because there's a crisis at home. You've got to be far-sighted enough to provide for the possibilities of crisis in advance. Of course, you pay through the nose for that kind of protection.