"While woman’s intellect is confined, her morals crushed, her health ruined, her weaknesses encouraged, and her strength punished, she is told that her lot is cast in the paradise of women: and there is no country in the world where there is so much boasting of the “chivalrous” treatment she enjoys. That is to say, — she has the best place in stage-coaches: when there are not chairs enough for everybody, the gentlemen stand: she hears oratorical flourishes on public occasions about wives and home, and apostrophes to woman: her husband’s hair stands on end at the idea of her working, and he toils to indulge her with money […] her morals are guarded by the strictest observance of propriety in her presence. In short, indulgence is given her as a substitute for justice."

- Harriet Martineau, Society in America, 1837 (via braided)

(via sociolab)

Source: wildletters
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