Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
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.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
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