Philobiblon

In a magazine essay on “Woman”:

“It’s very unnatural to love those who are neither of a tender or delicate disposition; but n the contrary are of a bold, impudent deportment. What a grovelling soul must he have who can mix his passions with any thing so odious! … Courage in that sex is to me as disgustful as effeminacy in men.”

Now there’s a man with psychological problems…

Quoted in The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History, which well deserves its good reviews, even though irritatingly this quote is not footnoted… but we are presumably talking latish 18th century.