“In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.”

—  Alexis De Tocqueville , book Democracy in America

Book Three, Chapter XII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

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