g an intelligent wife becomes so dependent on her, so much under her influence, that no general rule should be drawn from the remark. When a man and wife have li

one without the other, and resolved to do it for fifty years, the world would put up its shutters. May

ried women. Shall we then say, Of old bachelors and old maids, who have led monachal lives, which have been the happier, and would be the more ready to decline matrimony if the oppo

actically amounts to this: Which wo

lty in answering, and even in speaking about, with authori

e must recall to our minds all the observations which we have made on the lives of men and women whom we have known. Let us not follow the example of the woman who would be a

rmous majority of women who would elect to be men, and only a very small minority

but the reason may be that I possess many failings of which I am aware, and also a few qualities

t once that sex

yet I like to lead and have my own way. If the position of first fiddle is engaged, I decline to form part of the orchestra. Most of these character

I would love to protect and pet a beloved one, whom I would think weaker than myself. I am a born fighter, and I don't care for

ch would cause me to make that choice quite independent of my character. Nature has given women beauty of face a

an anomaly, a freak, I altogether fail to see why ninety women out of a hundred should return thanks for being women. I have no hesitation in s

y, in the second case, man) ought to redress. But the greatest grievances of women a

mains young. In every race she is handicapped out of any chance of winning or ev

o thirty, a brilliant officer from thirty to forty, a celebrated painter from forty to fifty, a famous poet or novelist from fifty