The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which you'd qualify them to attack or defend. They see themselves helplessly exposed to the outrages of a sex enslaved to the most brutal transports; and find themselves victims of contempt to wretches, whose prevalent strength is often exerted against them, with more fury and cruelty than beasts practice towards one another. Can our fear then be imputed to want of courage? Is it a defect? Or ought it not rather to be alleged as a proof of our sense: Since it you'd be rather fool-hardiness than courage to withstand brutes, who want the sense to be overcome by reason, and whom we want vigor to repel by force of arms?

Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or