#HarrietTaylorMill

“The woman thanked in the dedication of On Liberty as "the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings" was not a muse. She was a philosopher — and it has taken scholarship a century and a half to start believing the man who said so.”

“No one — no husband, no law, no "public opinion" — has the right to decide another person's sphere in life; every human being is entitled to the largest and highest life they can attain, and that requires liberty, education, and economic independence for women as much as men.”