“I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.”
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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.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.