Littell's Living Age, Volume 75Living Age Company Incorporated, 1862 |
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Page 81
... women , and women alone , can , than to dash into men's sphere of trades and professions , thereby , in most instances , fighting an unequal battle , and coming out of it maimed , broken , unsexed ; turned into beings that are neither ...
... women , and women alone , can , than to dash into men's sphere of trades and professions , thereby , in most instances , fighting an unequal battle , and coming out of it maimed , broken , unsexed ; turned into beings that are neither ...
Page 339
... woman without any of the qualities we attribute to her sex . Not that the worst are wholly un- sexed ; bad women are not more like men than good ones - in some cases they are less so : all the weaknesses of the feminine or- ganization ...
... woman without any of the qualities we attribute to her sex . Not that the worst are wholly un- sexed ; bad women are not more like men than good ones - in some cases they are less so : all the weaknesses of the feminine or- ganization ...
Page 341
... woman's natural graces from such extreme instances of the absence of them , which is that they are nat- ural to women if they are trained in them if a woman is brought up in modest , deco- rous ways , there is a natural bias in her to ...
... woman's natural graces from such extreme instances of the absence of them , which is that they are nat- ural to women if they are trained in them if a woman is brought up in modest , deco- rous ways , there is a natural bias in her to ...
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