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"American women never manage the outward concerns of the family, or conduct a business, or take a part in political life: nor are they, on the other hand, ever compelled to operform the rough labor of the fields, or to make any of those laborious exertions which demand the exertion of physical strength. No families are so poor as to form an exception to the rule. If on the one hand an American women cannot escape from the quiet circle of domestic employments, on the other hand she is never forced to go beyond it. Hence it is that the women of America, who often exhibit a masculine strength of understanding and a manly energy, generally preserve great delicacy of personal appearance and always retain the manners of women, although they sometimes show that thye have the hearts and minds of men." (De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 742)

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