His own exclamation: “Women should be free—as free as we are,” struck to the root of a problem that it was agreed in his world to regard as nonexistent. “Nice” women, however wronged, would never claim the kind of freedom he meant, and generous-minded men like himself were therefore—in the heat of argument—the more chivalrously ready to concede it to them. Such verbal generosities were in fact only a humbugging disguise of the inexorable conventions that tied things together and bound people down to the old pattern.
Edith WhartonTags: equality freedom gender-inequality
People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.
Rebecca WestTags: feminism gender-stereotypes womens-liberation gender-roles feministic-discrimination gender-inequality
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