It is not until a community or an individual has advanced a fair distance along the path of civilisation and shows by its laws its elimination of many of its most mischievous dispositions - notably sadism - that it can bear to admit the equality of women. (Rebecca West)

It is not until a community or an individual has advanced a fair distance along the path of civilisation and shows by its laws its elimination of many of its most mischievous dispositions - notably sadism - that it can bear to admit the equality of women.

Rebecca West

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