Chap.

  1    1|          respecting the rights of woman and national education:
  2    1|          earnestly to wish to see woman placed in a station in which
  3    1|          the rights and duties of woman, seems to flow so naturally
  4    1|      Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built
  5    1|     general practice. And how can woman be expected to co-operate
  6    1|        education and situation of woman, at present, shuts her out
  7    1|        world till the person of a woman is not, as it were, idolized,
  8    1|         and explanation, those of woman, by a parity of reasoning,
  9    1|         justify the oppression of woman - prescription.~ ~ Consider,
 10    1|           the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him the gift
 11    1|          is revised the Rights of Woman may be respected, if it
 12  Int|               Yet, because I am a woman, I would not lead my readers
 13  Int|         or abrogated in favour of woman. A degree of physical superiority
 14    2|            to know no more~ ~ 'Is Woman's happiest knowledge and
 15    2|          Rousseau declares that a woman should never, for a moment,
 16    2|          prevailing opinion, that woman was created for man, may
 17    2|              I shall be told that woman would then lose many of
 18    2|         the habitude of life? The woman who has only been taught
 19    2|         sense, why should not one woman acknowledge that she can
 20    2|       necessary? Nature has given woman a weaker frame than man;
 21    2|          is over.~ ~ Besides, the woman who strengthens her body
 22    2|     sentiment, which he advises a woman not to acquire, if she have
 23    2|           If all the faculties of woman's mind are only to be cultivated
 24    2|       stored mind, would enable a woman to support a single life
 25    2|       portrait of an accomplished woman, according to the received
 26    2|          moral being of a man and woman; not forgetting to give
 27    2|     constantly concur in advising woman only to provide for the
 28    2|        that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy. She was
 29    2|          surveying the history of woman, I cannot help, agreeing
 30    2|  acknowledging the inferiority of woman, according to the present
 31    2|           venture to predict that woman will be either the friend
 32    2|        would not be inverted, for woman would then only have the
 33    2|       cannot be demonstrated that woman is essentially inferior
 34    2|       liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and
 35    3|          natural superiority over woman; and this is the only solid
 36    3|         and the laws of nature. A woman who is naturally weak, and
 37    3|         And if it be granted that woman was not created merely to
 38    3|          should it be proved that woman is naturally weaker than
 39    3|         preserve personal beauty, woman's glory! the limbs and faculties
 40    3|         can it be expected that a woman will resolutely endeavour
 41    3| subjection.~ ~ I once knew a weak woman of fashion, who was more
 42    3|           against vice?~ ~ Such a woman is not a more irrational
 43    3|      their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes
 44    3|          fallaciously assert that woman ought to be subjected because
 45    3|          freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it
 46    3|      German writer, that a pretty woman, as an object of desire,
 47    3|       descriptions; whilst a fine woman, who inspires more sublime
 48    3|    shoulders.~ ~ But, supposing a woman, trained up to obedience,
 49    3|      established, it follows that woman is expressly formed to please
 50    3|      prior to love itself.~ ~ 'If woman be formed to please and
 51    3|          Still she only acts as a woman ought to act, brought up
 52    3|           reckoned a good kind of woman. Yet in what respect can
 53    3|           Let fancy now present a woman with a tolerable understanding,
 54    3|    excepting modesty. For man and woman, truth, if I understand
 55    4|           of Degradation to Which Woman~ ~Is Reduced by Various
 56    4|           Various Causes.~ ~ That woman is naturally weak, or degraded
 57    4|         of rationality granted to woman, is, indeed, very scanty;
 58    4|        may love,'*(2) the soul of woman is not allowed to have this
 59    4|         theories, and considering woman as a whole, let it be what
 60    4|      speaking, has been denied to woman; and instinct, sublimated
 61    4|            and I shall grant that woman only exists for man. I must,
 62    4|           to trace the history of woman; it is sufficient to allow
 63    4|       Pleasure is the business of woman's life, according to the
 64    4|        empire is no mean,~ ~ 'And woman, either slave or queen,~ ~ '
 65    4|          is always a king - and a woman always a woman:* his authority
 66    4|       king - and a woman always a woman:* his authority and her
 67    4|          of character ascribed to woman; is the cause why the understanding
 68    4|          dignity before them.'~ ~ Woman also thus 'in herself complete,'
 69    4|       general, the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental
 70    4|           the condition for which woman was organized, has been
 71    4|           man was made to reason, woman to feel: and that together,
 72    4|      round to my old argument; if woman be allowed to have an immortal
 73    4|  absolutely necessary to enable a woman to perform any duty properly,
 74    4|        time.~ ~ 'The power of the woman,' says some author, 'is
 75    4|        inert body a soul; but, in woman's imagination, love alone
 76    4|      cold-hearted, narrow-minded, woman, and this is not an unfair
 77    4|        sense can only love such a woman on account of her sex, and
 78    4|       order to enable the notable woman to keep a better table,
 79    4|           created such a being as woman, who can trace thy wisdom
 80    4|          beauty the perfection of woman - mere beauty of features
 81    4|         if polygamy be necessary, woman must be inferior to man,
 82    4|          yet when a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be
 83    4|           obliged to maintain the woman and her children, unless
 84    4|        melt into selfishness. The woman who is faithful to the father
 85    4|           necessary for a man and woman to live together in order
 86    4|        wanting in the world!~ ~ A woman who has lost her honour,
 87    4|       lost that is respectable in woman. Her character depends on
 88    4|        love. Nay, the honour of a woman is not made even to depend
 89    4|     frippery of dress. For when a woman in the lower rank of life
 90    4|         employments have rendered woman a trifler. Man, taking her*
 91    4|         will endeavour to enslave woman: - and, who can tell, how
 92    4|         my opinion, have degraded woman, I have confined my observations
 93    5|        sketch of his character of woman, in his own words, interspersing
 94    5|            should be as perfect a woman as Emilius is a man, and
 95    5|       then proceeds to prove that woman ought to be weak and passive,
 96    5|         depend on the will of the woman, when he seeks for pleasure
 97    5|         nature, which, furnishing woman with a greater facility
 98    5|          doubt whether it was the woman's weakness that yielded
 99    5|      lasciviousness.~ ~ Supposing woman to have been formed only
100    5|          allowed to doubt whether woman was created for man: and,
101    5|           Rousseau, 'that man and woman are not, nor ought to be,
102    5|   education best adapted to them. Woman and man were made for each
103    5|      merely the person of a young woman, without any mind, unless
104    5|  themselves. The life of a modest woman is reduced, by our absurd
105    5|           is the life of a modest woman a perpetual conflict? I
106    5|      important qualification in a woman is good-nature or sweetness
107    5|    mildness of disposition on the woman's side will always bring
108    5|           strength: without this, woman would not be the companion
109    5|        while she affects to obey. Woman has every thing against
110    5|        speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her; the
111    5|         what is useful, that of a woman's what is agreeable. There
112    5|          a moral person, of which woman may be termed the eyes,
113    5|          is from the man that the woman is to learn what she is
114    5|          to see, and it is of the woman that man is to learn what
115    5|           what he ought to do. If woman could recur to the first
116    5|          their minutae as well as woman, always independent of each
117    5|               As the conduct of a woman is subservient to the public
118    5|           who contend for leaving woman in a state of the most profound
119    5|             After thus cramping a woman's mind, if, in order to
120    5|         perhaps the most virtuous woman in the world, is the least
121    5|             Besides, how should a woman void of reflection be capable
122    5|     chance.~ ~ But, granting that woman ought to be beautiful, innocent,
123    5|           that led him to degrade woman by making her the slave
124    5|       long made a part of a young woman's library; nay, girls at
125    5|           and the behaviour which woman ought to assume to render
126    5|       Never, perhaps, does a fine woman strike more deeply, than
127    5|         knowledge entertains in a woman, so from a woman, though
128    5|  entertains in a woman, so from a woman, though for a different
129    5|       sensibility desire in every woman soft features, and a flowing
130    5|           domestic bliss.' Such a woman ought to be an angel - or
131    5|       deceiving them.'~ ~ Hapless woman! what can be expected from
132    5|          when in the company of a woman. The savage hand of rapine
133    5|    jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated
134    5|         the wise. Besides, when a woman has sufficient sense not
135    5|             The sentiment, that a woman may allow all innocent freedoms,
136    5|   perfectly coincide. A man, or a woman, of any feeling, must always
137    5|     squeezes the hand of a pretty woman, handing her to a carriage,
138    5|       that - 'The power of a fine woman over the hearts of men,
139    5|           a greater hereafter.~ ~ Woman in particular, whose virtue*
140    5|          it grows less so: that a woman will pardon an affront to
141    5| punishment however severe, that a woman of spirit will not prefer
142    5|         common basis of virtue. A woman must know, that her person
143    5|        the sacred task. He denies woman reason, shuts her out from
144    5|  represents an accomplished young woman, as ready to marry any body
145    5|   Macaulay to my remembrance. The woman of the greatest abilities,
146    5|          produced. - And yet this woman has been suffered to die
147    5|      thinking, was a proof that a woman can acquire judgment, in
148    5|         what is vulgarly termed a woman's reason. For women sometimes
149    6|           to be just, 'that every woman is at heart a rake,' why
150    6|     feeling, the only province of woman, at present, they might
151    6|         What satisfaction could a woman of delicacy promise herself
152    7|           to throb with love. The woman who has dedicated a considerable
153    7|        carried still further, and woman, weak woman! made by her
154    7|          further, and woman, weak woman! made by her education the
155    7|         her husband's arms. - The woman is immodest who can let
156    7|             when, like Heloisa, a woman gives up all the world,
157    7|      allowed to call her a modest woman, before I dismiss this part
158    7|        probably still insist that woman ought to have more modesty
159    7|   neck-handkerchief, for a modest woman never did so!'~ ~ I could
160    7|           must be kept up between woman and woman, or their minds
161    7|         kept up between woman and woman, or their minds will never
162    8|   respecting herself. The married woman, on the contrary, breaks
163    8|         mention an instance.~ ~ A woman of quality, notorious for
164    8|          afterwards married. This woman had actually confounded
165    8|      termed the principal duty of woman in the most express words,
166    8|         the public opinion: but a woman, in behaving well, performs
167    8|       hence, that the system of a woman's education should, in this
168    8|      chastity. If the honour of a woman, as it is absurdly called,
169    8|        truly she is an honourable woman!~ ~ Mrs. Macaulay has justly
170    8|          is but one fault which a woman of honour may not commit
171    8|         fault against chastity in woman has a radical power to deprave
172    8|          dignity; and the man and woman often meeting on account
173    8|          Something more soft than woman is then sought for; till,
174    8|          to turn the attention of woman to the real virtue of chastity;
175    8|           little respect has that woman a claim, on the score of
176    9|         only observe, that when a woman is admired for her beauty,
177    9|           and respectability of a woman's life to voluptuous notions
178    9|           reasonable affectionate woman is very interesting, and
179    9|       then viewed with pleasure a woman nursing her children, and
180    9|           chains the very soul of woman, keeping her for ever under
181    9|        act for himself; but for a woman it is an herculean task,
182    9|       private or public virtue of woman is very problematical; for
183    9|           this indirectly to deny woman reason? for a gift is a
184    9|       duties. The laws respecting woman, which I mean to discuss
185    9|          with that of a civilized woman, I am not going to advise
186    9|       continually see some worthy woman, whose sensibility has been
187    9|           more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread
188   10|       sturdy innovator's hand.~ ~ Woman, however, a slave in every
189   10|           To be a good mother - a woman must have sense, and that
190   10|       unless the understanding of woman be enlarged, and her character
191   12|            for if nature destined woman, in particular, for the
192   12|           will also exclaim, that woman would be unsexed by acquiring
193   12|        from a matter of fact. The woman whom I allude to was handsome,
194   12|    therefore he laboured to bring woman down to her's. He found
195   12|           longer treat her like a woman, she ceased to have an affection
196   12|           have an affection for a woman, or a friendship for a man.
197   12|        sexual weakness that makes woman depend on man for a subsistence,
198   12|          with men, some superiour woman, like the Greek courtezans,
199   12|    legitimate parents of taste. A woman of talents, if she be not
200   12|        take their choice, man and woman were made for each other,
201   12|           whole evening, should a woman of a more cultivated understanding
202   12|           further, and a sensible woman stigmatized as an unnatural
203   12|         maternal character, takes woman out of her sphere.~ ~ But
204   13|          spoil their tempers - is woman in a natural state?~ ~ SECT.
205   13|   particular, who was a very good woman - as good as such a narrow
206   13|         see a novel. As she was a woman of fortune and fashion,
207   13|         when the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest
208   13|      immediately agree that it is woman's duty to cultivate a fondness
209   13|           peculiar destination of woman, the ignorance that incapacitates
210   13|          assistance from a man or woman as a favour; and, as the
211   13|         the duties of a mother, a woman with a sound constitution,
212   13|        begun till the person of a woman is no longer preferred to
213   13|           that a foolish ignorant woman should be a good mother.~ ~
214   13|         despises understanding in woman - that the mind, which he
215   13|           the last volume.~ ~ Let woman share the rights and she