“Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.”
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Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
