“In every disadvantage that a woman suffers at the hands of a man, there is inevitably, in what concerns the man, an element of cowardice. When I say "inevitably," I mean that this is what the woman sees in it.”

Source: Confidence (1879), Ch. XIX.

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American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843–1916

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