Because she performs functions of an inferior order;
Because she produces less than man in an industrial point of view;
Because her peculiar temperament prevents her from performing certain functions;
Because she is only fit for in-door life; because her vocation is to be mother and housewife, to devote herself entirely to her husband and children;
Because man protects and supports her;
Because man is her proxy, and exercises rights both for her and himself;
Because woman has no more time than capacity to exercise certain rights.
The rights of woman are in her beauty and our love, add some, gallantly.
Woman does not claim her rights; many women themselves are scandalized by the demands made by a few of their sex, continue other men.
And they spare the courageous women who plead the cause of right, and the men who sustain them neither calumnies, nor mockery, nor insult, hoping to intimidate the former and disgust the latter.