Their rights to more freedom for work and for speech
Are placed by disease quite beyond the world’s reach.
Such women belong to that low, common kind
Who assert that an active condition of mind
Or of hands (me! how vulgar!) does make, after all,
What we a true woman can worthily call.
But say, of what consequence, pray, can it be
If females with such vulgar notions, you see,
Are forced to stop work and all bold agitations
Of questions important to churches and nations