The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'
I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.