“What, in unenlightened societies, colour, race, religion, or in the case of a conquered country, nationality, are to some men, sex is to all women; a peremptory exclusion from almost all honourable occupations, but either such as cannot be fulfilled by others, or such as those others do not think worthy of their acceptance.”

— John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

Source: The Subjection of Women (1869), Ch. 4

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