“The child must restrain itself and not steal the jam; the woman must restrain herself and not let her honour be stolen.”
“And, you will say, the man must restrain himself and not steal her honour?”
“Certainly.
“And every man, who is a man and not a cur, obeys that law as far as in him lies.
“Man, you must remember, has a lot to fight against, and nothing so much as the old rules of license under which he has lived for ages.
“They used to be a royal robe; they are now a beggar’s tatters. He is ashamed to be seen in them nowadays; he only puts them on in private; yet they are always crying to him to put them on, just as filth is always crying to a dog, Roll in me.
“That is all I have to say about the moral side of the Feminist people. Their claim for equal freedom with man in other respects is far more pleasant to notice. And it comes to this:
“Since the mass of women is just the same as the mass of men, in the name of Humanity, why should not the woman mass have the same freedom in affairs as the man, politically and socially?
Social and Political
“Why should the women of the nation not be free to expand their mental and bodily energy in every social and political path in which the men expand it?