The woman is in rights, absolutely equal to the man; and in respect and tenderness, superior to man, by the mere fact of being a mother.
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Women are in no case immoral without the corruption of men; and women are corrupted by the ignorance in which they are kept and by the slavery to which brute force subjects them.
The woman has in absolutes more rights than the man to declare her love to the man, because she has clearer perception than the man of the end she comes to fulfill; To be mother and the consolation of the man.
A woman cannot be immoral by herself, because she senses and knows that her mission is to be a mother; and she will never declare herself by caprice and carnal passion, but by obeying the law of affinity; and it is certain that in only one per thousand would she be mistaken once educated in her rights and prerogatives; for the woman, educated in feeling, even in the pleasure of the flesh, also senses the pains of death of childbirth by which she will be a mother; The woman, who is endowed with the perception of that duty, has the courage to take a second of pleasure, in exchange for three years of suffering and bleeding, in order to give life to in being; something that man would never do, because he lacks courage, constancy and true love.
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It would be impossible to enumerate the crimes that are committed by enslaving women, because they are forced to kill the greatest feelings, and hence the accumulation of crimes that we have recorded that unbalance humanity.
Therefore, I declare: that the woman has perfect right and rises to where it belongs by declaring her love to the man who lives in her heart from before her birth.
That the woman, educated in the broadest freedom, is the basis of morality and that her participation in the affairs of the Commune is, in addition to balance, the complement of harmony.
That the woman, outside of slavery, is the guarantee of the universal peace, and her contest in the public thing puts veto to the waste, is the saving anchor by her love and kills the licentiousness, which will be matter of the following paragraph.
It remains, therefore, proclaimed the equal right of the woman in all the acts of the life; that the man, with malice has usurped him, not being able to be excluded nor hindered in the declaration of his love and feelings.