If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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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