Ehemänner ebenso wie ihre Artgenossen sind oft nur zu groß geratene Kinder.

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She had established the facts, which were indeed to be taken up and insisted on by many more writers after her; she was the first to state what came to seem obvious - then she collapsed. She had not yet learned the courage of her anger; she fell into religious platitudes and spoke of the good that arose necessarily from the trials of life; the main business of existence after all was to learn virtue, not to have an interesting or well paid job. She even called one chapter 'The Benefits which arise from Disappoinments' (sic). And it was also during this period that she wrote a letter in which she volunteered that she was trying 'to do my duty in that station in which Providence has placed me', the most conventional and cowed remark she ever made. Had such Christian resignation prevailed with her there would have been no Vindication, but luckily she continued to find difficulty in accepting what Providence had to offer.

/Claire Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft