We have ourselves to answer for.
The adjustment of qualities is so perfect between men and women, and each is so necessary to the other, that the idea of inferiority is absurd.
At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.
Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.