“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.”
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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.
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.
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.