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