“Perhaps. It is something of a relief to find another woman of intelligence and sound common sense. I have not met many, I can assure you.” “For which you blame my gender,” he finished. “Who else? It is men who have kept women downtrodden and poorly educated, so burdened by domesticity and babies they can scarcely raise their heads. You put us on pedestals and wrap us in cotton wool, cluck over us as being too precious and too fragile for any real labor of the mind, yet where is the concern for the Yorkshire woman working herself into an early grave in a coal mine? The factory girl who chokes
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