Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
Some may choose fashionable life willingly.
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.
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'The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.'
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