All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is their nature to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their affections.


The Subjection of Women (ed. 1869)

John Stuart Mill Quotes

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, ...

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, ...

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, ...

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, ...