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[volatilevirus]

"Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quite homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence."
Elizabeth Missing Sewell

This upsets me.

Comments

[vintica]

I see your Elizabeth Missing Sewell, and raise you a Virginia Woolfe:

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

[volatilevirus]

I'm all in with Louisa May Alcott:

"When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."
from Little Women

[vintica]

You win. You always do.