kovalevskys

Updated: May 6, 2025

Were it possible to place a company of the most highly evolved human females George Sands, Sophia Kovalevskys, or even the average cultured females of a highly evolved race on an island where the only males were savages of the Fugean type, who should meet them on the shores with matted hair and prognathous jaws, and with wild shouts, brandishing their implements of death, to greet and welcome them, it is an undoubted fact that, so great would be the horror felt by the females towards them, that not only would the race become extinct, but if it depended for its continuance on any approach to sex affection on the part of the women, that death would certainly be accepted by all, as the lesser of two evils.

Olive Schreiner - Woman and Labour