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Quotation from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
“the legal subordination of one sex to the other--is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement”
The Subjection of Women, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg text (1869 first edition))
Mill's opening statement of the thesis of the whole essay.
Citation: "the legal subordination of one sex to the other--is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement" — John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg text (1869 first edition)). (id the-subjection-of-women-q1)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
