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The reason they assigned was as infamous as the act: declaring that women had been too long under the tyranny of parents and of husbands.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The reason they assigned was as infamous as the act: declaring that women had been too long under the tyranny of parents…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke criticizes the justification for women's liberation from parental and marital authority.
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