Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
Friedrich Schlegel
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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