“Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.”
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
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.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
