Letitia Elizabeth Landon on Women
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“A woman only can understand a woman; and it is pleasant to be understood sometimes.”
“Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.”
“What! still retaining your Utopian visions of female felicity? To talk of our happiness!—ours, the ill-used and oppressed! You remind me of the ancient tyrant, who, seeing his slaves sink under the weight of their chains, said, 'Do look at the indolent repose of those people!'”