Book: Shirley

If men could see us as we really are, they would be much surprised. But even the most intelligent and insightful of the men cheat the women they see them in a false light and can not assess their characteristics, both good and bad. A good woman is a strange creature: half doll, half angel; and the bad is often a witch. Listen as they marvel at the creations of his imagination, some kind of heroine of the poem, the novel or the play, how they praise it, call it sublime, divine and so on! Maybe she really sublime and divine, but all these heroines fake as artificial rose in my best bonnet. If I were to Express what I think about this, if I expressed my true opinion about the best female images in the best products, you represent yourself, what would I become? I'd just be stoned to death, and after half an hour I would have died a miserable death.