Reading: Taylor, Harriet and Mill, J. S. (1850) ‘Women’s Rights’ in Robson, Ann p. and Robson, John M. (ed) (1994) Sexual Equality

• “As each successive step [towards change] requires a whole generation or several generations to effect it, and is then only one step, things in reality very changeable remain a sufficient length of time without perceptible progress, to be, by the majority of cotemporaries, mistaken for things permanent and immovable”

• “A woman is born disqualified, and cannot by any exertion get rid of her disabilities.”