Fen'Harel’s Reviews > Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman > Status Update

"Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women."

"By allowing women but one way of rising in the world, the fostering the libertinism of men, society makes monsters of them, and then their ignoble vices are brought forward as a proof of inferiority of intellect."

"He felt the fragrance of her breath, and longed, yet feared, to touch the lips from which it issued."

"In many works of this species, the hero is allowed to be mortal, and to become wise and virtuous as well as happy, by a train of events and circumstances. The heroines, on the contrary, are to be born immaculate, and to act like goddesses of wisdom, just come forth highly finished Minervas from the head of Jove."