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- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 116
- ISBN-10: 1530577144
- ISBN-13: 9781530577149
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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What a misfortune it is to be born a woman! In vain, dear Leonora, would you reconcile me to my doom. Condemned to incessant hypocrisy, or everlasting misery, woman is the slave or the outcast of society. Confidence in our fellow-creatures, or in ourselves, alike forbidden us, to what purpose have we understandings, which we may not use? hearts, which we may not trust? To our unhappy sex genius and sensibility are the most treacherous gifts of Heaven. Why should we cultivate talents merely to gratify the caprice of tyrants? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable?
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- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 116
- ISBN-10: 1530577144
- ISBN-13: 9781530577149
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
What a misfortune it is to be born a woman! In vain, dear Leonora, would you reconcile me to my doom. Condemned to incessant hypocrisy, or everlasting misery, woman is the slave or the outcast of society. Confidence in our fellow-creatures, or in ourselves, alike forbidden us, to what purpose have we understandings, which we may not use? hearts, which we may not trust? To our unhappy sex genius and sensibility are the most treacherous gifts of Heaven. Why should we cultivate talents merely to gratify the caprice of tyrants? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable?
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