“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.”
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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.
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.
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.
