Dorothy Richardson

[from Dorothy Richardson's Deadlock, 1921]

These women's rights people are the worst of all. Because they think women have been subject in the past. Women have never been subject. Never can be. The proof of this is the way men have always been puzzled and everlastingly trying fresh theories; founded on the very small experiences of women any man is capable of having. . . . [Men] must leave off imagining themselves as a race of gods fighting against chaos, and thinking of women as part of the chaos they have to civilize. There isn't any 'chaos.' . . .It's the principal masculine delusion. It is not a truth to say that women must be civilized.