Sublime

They were girls, of course, no boys could ever have shown that sparkling beauty, and yet none of us was certain at first.

I told her in so many words that we had our unsolved problems,

"But these New Ladies didn't have anyone to be jealous of, remember,"

For generations women accepted the role of legitimizing humans through marriage to a man. They agreed that a human was not acceptable unless a man said so.

telling of the advantages of competition: how it developed fine qualities; that without it there would be "no stimulus to industry." Terry was very strong on that point.

dizendo às mulheres que deveriam ser assim.

First this was merely the hope of bearing better ones, and then they recognized that however the children differed at birth, the real growth lay later—through education.

"Oh, cloth! Women have always been spinsters. But there they stop—you'll see."

In late 18th-century England, women had very few rights. Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft was frustrated that this lack of rights limited a woman’s ability to be independent and make choices on how to live her life. Instead of arguing, however, for why women should get rights, she recognized that she had to demonstrate the value that these rights wo