There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?""Are you a young lady?""I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.
Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
empowerment, expectations, gender, honesty, independence, influence, integrity, love, marriage, matrimony, propriety, respect, self-determination, self-respect, uprightness, women