Lucy Wright

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    What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
    Into a Lover’s head!
    ‘O mercy!’ to myself I cried,
    ‘If Lucy should be dead!’
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. ‘Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)