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A man glories in being considered bold, but a woman shrinks from the charge of boldness, as degrading to her sex. [2] And here I shelter myself behind a doughty champion of women, because if I wrote the indictment which he has set down, my ethical-cum-philosophical Gamaliel, and possibly many of my women readers, would charge me with
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I quote again from Mr. Gibson, who, in this charge of the alleged untruthfulness of women, is almost as emphatic as Schopenhauer:
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Owing to the subordinate position of women, _they are less truthful than men_. They work up to their ends without the exercise of force, and must therefore use guile. Men lie as readily as women when they think lies will serve their purpose, but, having more freedom, and being less afraid of conflict, they have less cause to lie. _Women are taught to lie from their childhood, in order to hide their desires, their disappointments, and their sufferings._ Women are driven in upon themselves, and in sheer self-defence lie as men are not called upon to lie.