It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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