“If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“… counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, book The Second Sex
Source: The Second Sex
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