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There is always something sovereign and monarchial about a woman: like a queen's, her wishes are her commands. And
In matrimony, woman's sovereignty is not abdicated. By no means; it is only transformed from an absolute into a constitutional monarch : she acts then by and with the advice of her First Lord. This is the ideal State.
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Woman's true function, as a citizen, in this world is: to spur men on to high and noble action. And this, quite unconsciously, she does.
Woman's true function, as a woman, in the world is: to evoke man's most fervid emotions, and at the same time to keep them at their highest level. And this she also does—perhaps not quite so unconsciously.
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They err who call women illogical. Feminine logic is inexorable. But it proceeds per saltum. It is man who has laboriously to reason step by step.
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The most wayward woman craves control: To let a woman have her own way is interpreted by her as indifference. And