"Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved--
The feeling that it is a personal insult when a man transfers his attentions from her to another woman.
The desire for comfortable protection instead of an intelligent curiosity & courage in meeting & resisting the pressure of life sex or so called love must be reduced to its initial element, honour, grief, sentimentality, pride & consequently jealously must be detached from it.
Woman for her happiness must retain her deceptive fragility of appearance, combined with indomitable will, irreducible courage, & abundant health the outcome of sound nerves--
Another great illusion that woman must use all her introspective clear-sightedness & unbiassed bravery to destroy--for the sake of her self-respect and the impurity of sex the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex--except in the mental attitude to it--will constitute an incalculable * wide social regeneration than it is possible for our generation to imagine."
--The "Feminist Manifesto"
