If he beat her she had no means of punishing, or even restraining him, unless, indeed, she could prove that her life was endangered.

If she ran away from him the law forced her to return.
Paragraph after paragraph the child read through, and, unseen by her father, marked faintly with a pencil.

So far as she was aware, father, and father's library of sheep-bound books, were the beginning and the end of the law, and to her mind the way to get rid of measures which took women's homes away from them was perfectly simple.

That night when the house was quiet she stole downstairs, scissors in hand, determined _to cut every one of those laws out of the book_.
The young reformer was restrained, but only temporarily.

As Elizabeth Cady Stanton she lived to do her part toward revising many of the laws under which women, in her day, suffered, and her successors, the organized women of the United States, are busy with their scissors, revising the rest.
Not alone in Russia, Germany, France, and England do the laws governing men and women need equalizing.