Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
Se supone generalmente que las mujeres son más tranquilas, pero la realidad es que las mujeres sienten igual que los hombres, que necesitan ejercitar sus facultades y desarrollar sus esfuerzos como sus hermanos masculinos, aunque ellos piensen que deben vivir reducidas a preparar budines, tocar el piano, bordar y hacer punto, y critiquen o se burlen de las que aspiran a realizar o aprender más de lo acostumbrado en su sexo.