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“... to earn money was impossible for them… had it been possible, the law denied them the right to possess what money they earned. It is only for the last forty-eight years that Mrs Seton has had a penny of her own. For all the centuries before that it would have been her husband's property..."

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“For, to endow a college would necessitate the suppression of families altogether. Making a fortune and bearing thirteen children - no human being could stand it”

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"Every penny I earn… will be taken from me and disposed of according to my husband's wisdom… even if I could earn money, is not a matter that interests me very greatly. I had better leave it to my husband”

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¨The “good girl” is rewarded for her behavior by being placed on a pedestal by

patriarchal culture¨

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"...I am also very aware of the ways in which patriarchal gender roles are destructive for men as well as for women."

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"Women are oppressed by patriarchy economically, politically, socially, and psychologically"

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“I must have opened it, for instantly there issued, like a guardian angel barring the way with a flutter of black gown instead of white wings, a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.”

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"His extraordinarily gifted sister, let us suppose, remained at home. She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic”

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“Now the writer, as I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of this reality."

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“[...]Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? – killed herself one winter's night and lies buried at some cross-roads where the omnibuses now stop outside the Elephant and Castle.”

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“The plot thus implies that marriage to the right man is a guarantee of happiness and the proper reward for a right-minded young woman.”

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“Yet her genius was for fiction and lusted to feed abundantly upon the lives of men and women and the study of their ways.."

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“The force of her own gift alone drove her to it. She made up a small parcel of her belongings, let herself down by a rope one summer's night and took the road to London."

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“No girl could have walked to London and stood at the stage door and forced her way into the presence of actor-managers without doing herself violence and suffering…which may have been irrational…a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reason…none the less inevitable”

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“I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me. So imperceptibly I found myself adopting a new attitude towards the other half of the human race. It was absurd to blame any class or any sex, as a whole. Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.”

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"She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother’s, for the tune of words. Like him, she had a taste for the theatre… she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face… no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress”

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"psychological disorders deemed

peculiar to women and characterized by overemotional, extremely irrational behavior."

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“Only, if Mrs Seton and her like had gone into business at the age of fifteen, there would have been – that was the snag in the argument – no Mary. What, I asked, did Mary think of that.."

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“Moreover, in a hundred years, I thought, reaching my own doorstep, women will have ceased to be the protected sex. Logically they will take part in all the activities and exertions that were once denied them. The nursemaid will heave coal. The shop woman will drive an engine.”

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" ...how, bowed down by the weight of the subject which you have laid upon my shoulders, I pondered it, and made it work in and out of my daily life."

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“Had she survived, whatever she had witten would have been Twisted and deformed, issuing from a strained and morbid imagination.”

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“Marriage was hateful to her, and for that she was severely beaten by her father. Then he ceased to scold her. He begged her instead not to hurt him, not to shame him in this matter of marriage… how could she disobey him? How could she break his heart?”

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“...women have always been poor…for two hundred years merely…from the beginning of time”

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”Traditional gender roles cast men as rational, strong, protective, and decisive; they cast women as emotional (irrational), weak”

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“...it is unthinkable that any women in Shakespeares’s day should have had Shakespeares genius”

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“Any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked”

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“One can easily fall off a pedestal, and when a woman doesn’t, she is often punished.At best, she suffers self-recrimination for her inadequacy or ‘unnaturalness’. At worst, she suffers physical punishment from the community or from her husband”

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“Then the patriarchal mind-set points to lower girls’ lower test scores in math and their failure to become math majors as proof that they are biologically ill-suited to mathematical studies, which, given the close relationships between math and logic, suggests that females are less logical than males. In other words, patriarchy creates the failure that it then uses to justify its assumptions about women”

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“These gender roles have been used very successfully to justify inequities, which still occur today, such as excluding women from equal access to leadership and decision-making positions (in the family as well in politics, academia, and the corporate world)”

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“Patriarchy continually exerts forces that undermine women’s self-confidence and assertiveness, then points to the absence of these qualities as proof that women are naturally, and therefore correctly, self-effacing and submissive."

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"Some relevant and convincing quote"