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It does not take a very high standard of feminine intelligence, strength, skill, health, or beauty to be a houseservant, or even a housekeeper; witness the average.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897
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These cretins are throwbacks to an era when married women were expected to rise no higher than to be the best houseservant to the man, and single women were virgins or prostitutes, either one available to fill the man’s desires.
Think Progress » Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 2005
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