Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as such, but at most only in so far as they affect particular personalities. They require the dramatic element to evoke their interest. With many men, on the contrary, though …

Ernest Belfort Bax
British barrister and journalist (1854–1926)
5 pieces
- Lived
- 1854–1926
- Born
- Leamington Spa
- Died
- London
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Known as
- writer, historian, barrister, journalist
- Era
- 20th century
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I fear many working men will tell Mrs. Besant that the greatest hindrance to their political and social activity is the apathy of their wives.
I think she understates in favour of her own sex the inequality which she admits to exist between the male and female intellect.
From all we have said, it will now be evident, one would think, to the most prejudiced reader that modern English Law, following obsequiously a deluded or apathetic stage of public opinion, has solved the problem of the division of rights …
There is a trick with which votaries of Feminism seek to prejudice the public mind against its critics, and that is the “fake” that any man who ventures to criticise the pretensions of Feminism, is actuated by motives of personal rancour …