Yuriy Kurienko
"Were our State a pure
democracy . . . there would yet be excluded from their deliberations . . . women, who, to
prevent depravation of morals and ambiguity of issue, should not mix promiscuously in the
public meetings of men." Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval
(Sept. 5, 1816), in 10 Writings of Thomas Jefferson 45-46, n. 1 (P. Ford ed. 1899).
To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to
children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you", Genesis
3:16

