“An American female constitution, which collapses just in the middle third of life, and comes out vulcanized India-rubber, if it happen to live through the period when health and strength are most wanted.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
“Tie reverenced and upheld, in every form in which it came before him, womanhood. . . . What a woman should demand is respect for her as she is a woman. Let her first lesson be, with sweet Susan Winstanley, to reverence her sex."
Charles Lamb : Essays of Elia .
“We trust that the time now approaches when man’s condition shall be progressively improved by the force of reason and truth, when the brute part of nature shall be crushed, that the god-like spirit may unfold.”
Guizot : History of Civilization , I., 34.