Under Construction
"By marriage, the husband and the wife are one person in the law... the very being and legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated into that of her husband under whose wing (and) protection she performs everything." — William Blackstone, English classical theorist of British Common Law, 1765.
A Noteworthy Response:
"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness." — Mary Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
