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Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as such, but at most only in so far as they affect particular personalities. They require the dramatic element to evoke their interest. With many men, on the contrary, though this element of course enhances interest, it is not the indispensable condition of interest.

— Ernest Belfort Bax No Misogyny But True Equality (1887)

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I think she understates in favour of her own sex the inequality which she admits to exist between the male and female intellect.

No Misogyny But True Equality (1887)

I fear many working men will tell Mrs. Besant that the greatest hindrance to their political and social activity is the apathy of their wives.

No Misogyny But True Equality (1887)

There is a trick with which votaries of Feminism seek to prejudice the public mind against its critics, and that is the “fake” that any man who ventures to criticise the pretensions of Feminism, is actuated by motives of personal rancour against the female sex.

The Fraud of Feminism (1913)

From all we have said, it will now be evident, one would think, to the most prejudiced reader that modern English Law, following obsequiously a deluded or apathetic stage of public opinion, has solved the problem of the division of rights and duties between the sexes, by conceding to woman all rights, and imposing on man all duties.

The Legal Subjection of Men (1908)

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