• Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

    Queen Victoria: Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
    "All For Love: Seven Centuries of Illicit Liaison" by Val Horsler, (p. 104), 2006.