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| | The Cult of True Womanhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | The attributes of True Womanhood, by which a woman judged herself and was judged by her husband, her neighbors, and her society could be divided into four cardinal virtues - piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity... |
 | | Therefore all True Women were urged, in the strongest possible terms, to maintain their virtue, although men, being by nature more sensual than they, would try to assault it. |
 | | For, if women were so very little less than the angels, she should surely take a more active part in running the world, especially since men were making such a hash of things... |
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