1998-07-10 09:00:00+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
From http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/bs/22/rentschler.html
Some men tell us we must be patient and persuasive; that we must be womanly. My friends, what is a man's idea of womanliness? Is it to have a manner which pleases him -- quiet, deferential, submissive, approaching him as a subject does a master. He wants no self-assertion on our part, no defiance, no vehement arraignment of him as a robber and a criminal ... while every right achieved by the oppressed has been wrung from tyrants by force; while the darkest page on human history is the outrages on women -- shall men tell us to be patient, persuasive, womanly?
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1870.