[Gutenberg 58496] • Revolted Woman · Past, present, and to come

Excerpt from Revolted Woman: Past, Present, and to Come

It might have been supposed, having in mind her first and most stupendous faux pas, that Woman would be content to sit, for all time humbly-under correction, satisfied with her lot until the crack of doom, when man and woman shall be no more; when heaven and earth shall pass away, and pale humanity come to judgment.

But it is essentially feminine, and womanlike (and therefore of necessity illogical) that she should be forgetful of the primeval curse which Mother Eve brought upon the race, and that she should, instead of going in sackcloth and ashes for her ancestor's disobedience, seek instead, not only to be the equal of man, but, in her foremost advocates - the strenuous and ungenerous females who periodically crucify the male sex in sexual novels written under manly pseudonyms - aspire to rule him, while as yet she has no efficient control over her own hysterical being.