![]() They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. “It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past … entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the “problem” of Queen Elizabeth. ![]() Yes, people are different, fundamentally and radically different, and people are the same, fundamentally same. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.’ What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (…) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. ‘In reaction against the age-old slogan, “woman is the weaker vessel,” or the still more offensive, “woman is a divine creature,” we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that “a woman is as good as a man,” without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that.
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