Her beauty made a fool of me; and I helped make a fool of her." "And I dare say," said Rose, "you told her that all she was made for was to be charming, and encouraged her to live the life of a butterfly or canary-bird.

Did you ever try to strengthen her principles, to educate her mind, to make her strong?
On the contrary, haven't you been bowing down and adoring her for being weak?
It seems to me that Lillie is exactly the kind of woman that you men educate, by the way you look on women, and the way you treat them." Harry sat in silence, ruminating.
"Now," said Rose, "it seems to me it's the most cowardly and unmanly thing in the world for men, with every advantage in their hands, with all the strength that their kind of education gives them, with all their opportunities,--a thousand to our one,--to hunt down these poor little silly women, whom society keeps stunted and dwarfed for their special amusement." "Miss Ferguson, you are very severe," said Harry, his face flushing.
"Well," said Rose, "you have this advantage, Mr.Endicott: you know, if I am, the world will not be.

Everybody will take your part; everybody will smile on you, and condemn her.

That is generous, is it not?
I think, after all, Noah Claypole isn't so very uncommon a picture of the way that your lordly sex turn round and cast all the blame on ours.

You will never make me believe in a protracted flirtation between a gentleman and lady, where at least half the blame does not lie on his lordship's side.