“Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.” MindHeartMaySpiritForceUnderstandingPrinciplesEffectsAffectionOppressionBowsBentEngagingRestrainingRecoil Author:Mary Hays
“Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature in its moments of intoxication has produced, that which men have contrived with a view to forming the minds and regulating the conduct of women, is perhaps the most completely absurd.” IfsMenMindHumansMayMomentsViewsHuman NatureAbsurdContradictionSexismAbsurdityIntoxicationBundles Book:Appeal to the men of Great Britain in behalf of women Source: Appeal to the men of Great Britain in behalf of women
