Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.