The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still … - Dora Russell

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Dora Russell

The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.

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