Chapter XIII: some instances of the folly which the ignorance of women generates; with concluding reflections on the mor

There are many follies, in some degree, peculiar to women: sins against reason of commission as well as of omission; but all flowing from ignorance or prejudice, I shall only point out such as appear to be particularly injurious to their moral character. And in animadverting on them, I wish especially to prove, that the weakness of mind and body, which men have endeavoured, impelled by various motives, to perpetuate, prevents their discharging the peculiar duty of their sex. for when weakness of body will not permit them to suckle their children, and weakness of mind makes them spoil their tempers – is woman in a natural state?