Status Updates From Mary and the Wrongs of Woman

“(…) his habits of thinking, gave him a contempt for female endowments, and he would repeat, when wine had loosed his tongue, most of the common-place sarcasms leveled at them, by men who do not allow them to have minds, because mind would be an impediment to gross enjoyment. Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.”

“The Portuguese are certainly the most uncivilized nation in Europe.” I guess a British author will be a British author no matter the political activism…….

takes me so long to read it

“Could she have loved her father or her mother, had they returned her affection, she would not so soon, perhaps, have sought out a new world.” soul crushing