“If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?”
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No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
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.
