In the new code of laws, which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.

  • -- Abigail Adams 阿比盖尔·亚当斯

在新的法典中,我想这是你必须制定的,我希望你记住女士们,对她们比你的祖先更慷慨,更仁慈。不可将这无限的权柄交在丈夫手里。记住,如果可能的话,所有的人都会成为暴君。

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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

由于妇女团体的领导人强调,无论何时他们被召到这里担任陪审员,我们总是有一种不同寻常的高类型的妇女担任陪审员。

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

文明人比野蛮人更不礼貌,因为他们知道,通常情况下,即使他们的头颅没有被劈开,也可能是不礼貌的。

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

人们反对进步,不是因为他们讨厌进步,而是因为他们喜欢惰性。

We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.

我们不把在公司里一起工作的男性和女性分开。