The Subjection of Women

"The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political subjects... That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement."

"So long as the general opinion of the majority of mankind puts the word 'right' as the synonym of 'natural,' so long there will be nothing so unnatural as a great change, and no offense to common sense so great as that which makes an old established custom cease to seem natural."

"What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others."

"The master of a woman's house as well as the master of his own, is not enough; she must be as much as possible at his beck and call, constantly occupied in pleasing him, and excluded from every other possible occupation."

"The greatest hindrance to human advancement is to be found in this, that the intellect and energies of half the human race are habitually repressed and crippled."

"Like a religion, it is taught in childhood; its precepts are continually whispered by insidious voices; the status quo is maintained by public opinion and enforced by law, until it comes to be regarded as part of the immutable constitution of nature."

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