• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

    Mary Wollstonecraft: Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
    Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.17, Lulu.com