Then woman shall have rights if she is beautiful, and as long as she shall continue so; if she is beloved, and as long as she shall continue so? Old, ugly and forsaken, she must be thrown into the car of the condemned to be transported to the guillotine?
If a woman should say such things, what a universal hue and cry would be raised?
Yet men pretend that they are rational! We congratulate woman on having too much common sense ever to be so in this wise.
After all these arguments, none of which will bear analysis, comes at last the triumphant objection: women do not claim their rights, many among them are even scandalized by the demand made by a few in the name of all. Do not women demand them, gentlemen?
What are a host of American women doing at the present time?
What have a number of English women done already?
What did Jean Deroin, Pauline Roland and many others, do here in 1848?
What am I doing to-day, in the name of a legion of women of whom I am the interpreter?
All women do not make reclamations, no; but do you not know that every demand of right is made at first singly?
That slaves accustomed to their chains, do not feel them until their instigators to revolt show them the bruises on their flesh?