The opponents of female suffrage lamented that woman’s emancipation would mean the end of marriage, morality and the state; their extremism was more … - Germaine Greer

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The opponents of female suffrage lamented that woman’s emancipation would mean the end of marriage, morality and the state; their extremism was more clear-sighted than the woolly benevolence of liberals and humanists, who thought that giving women a measure of freedom would not upset anything. When we reap the harvest which the unwitting suffragettes sowed we shall see that the anti-feminists were after all right.