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call me a crazy darn feminist but the attack on mrs joe reaaaalllllyyyyyy reminds me of the ‘lobotomized woman’ trope

"pause of you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day"

ch 9

“be it or be it son’t, you must be a common scholar afore you can be an uncommon one, i should hope! the king upon his throne, with his crown upon his ed, cant sit and write his acts of Parliament in print without having begun, when he were an unprompted prince, with the alphabet - Ah!”