Quote — Queen Victoria, letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870, in Theodore Martin, Queen Victoria as I Knew Her, William Blackwood and Sons, 1908, pp. 69

The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of “Woman’s Rights,” with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady [Amberley] ought to get a good whipping.

It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. God created men and women different—then let them remain each in their own position. Tennyson has some beautiful lines on the difference of men and women in The Princess. Woman would become the most hateful, heartless, and disgusting of human beings were she allowed to unsex herself; and where would be the protection which man was intended to give the weaker sex? The Queen is sure that Mrs Martin agrees with her.

Queen Victoria, letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870, in Theodore Martin, Queen Victoria as I Knew Her, William Blackwood and Sons, 1908, pp. 69–70
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of “Woman’s Rights,” with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady [Amberley] ought to get a good whipping.

It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. God created men and women different—then let them remain each in their own position. Tennyson has some beautiful lines on the difference of men and women in The Princess. Woman would become the most hateful, heartless, and disgusting of human beings were she allowed to unsex herself; and where would be the protection which man was intended to give the weaker sex? The Queen is sure that Mrs Martin agrees with her.

Queen Victoria, letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870, in Theodore Martin, Queen Victoria as I Knew Her, William Blackwood and Sons, 1908, pp. 69–70