Emily was preserved and erased, reduced to the sexless cypher E., and then came to denote not the shared and ordinary name Emily but a new, exotic, self-begotten Emilia. No longer masculine Francis but feminine-with-a-difference Emilia, vaguely Latin or Italian or French but in any case foreign, not domestic; […]

And now giue me leaue[…]to assure my sealf, that your lordships and the rest, duely considering my deportment, and his lordship’s expressions, which being so publick amount to a reprehension, will adiudge me guiltlesse of any disrespectiue carriadge towards him, and consequently vnmeriting so neglectfull an expostulation, and from a transgressing any the orders of that high court of parlament, whose approbation I esteeme more then rewards for any seruice I can doe.

Fourier was the most ardent and voluminous advocate of women's liberation and of sexual freedom among the early socialists.

And I believe that wholesalely declaring these areas off limits to motorized access is out of line.