Explore "Heroism" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
It takes great strength to train / To modern service your ancestral brain; / To lift the weight of the unnumbered years / Of dead men's habits, methods, and ideas; / To hold that back with one hand, and support / With the other the weak steps of a new thought.
It takes great strength to bring your life up square / With your accepted thought, and hold it there; / Resisting the inertia that drags back / From new attempts to the old habit's track. / It is so easy to drift back, to sink; / So hard to live abreast of what you think!