A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
When values disappear, the first people to suffer are women because people start losing their respect for women.
There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.
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.
A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.
Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.
Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.