The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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?
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
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