Men seem to carry out this design of Nature, that they should be
ministered to by women.
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A woman asks a woman questions in order to discover something. She asks
a man questions in order to discover the man.
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he last thing that a woman will risk is her personal appearance. Which
is saying a good deal, for
A woman will risk an interview at an unseasonable hour, but not in an
unseasonable frock.
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Never, never take a woman au pied de la letter.
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Women's rights are: to be loved.
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Women's duties are: to love.
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There is always something sovereign and monarchial about a woman: like a
queen's, her wishes are her commands. And
In matrimony, woman's sovereignty is not abdicated. By no means; it is
only transformed from an absolute into a constitutional monarch : she
acts then by and with the advice of her First Lord. This is the ideal
State.
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Woman's true function, as a citizen, in this world is: to spur men on to
high and noble action. And this, quite unconsciously, she does.
Woman's true function, as a woman, in the world is: to evoke man's most
fervid emotions, and at the same time to keep them at their highest
level. And this she also does--perhaps not quite so unconsciously.
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They err who call women illogical. Feminine logic is inexorable. But it
proceeds per saltum. It is man who has laboriously to reason step by
step.
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The most wayward woman craves control: To let a woman have her own way is
interpreted by her as indifference. And
The surest way to fail to please a woman is to let her do what she
pleases.
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