"I am imagining myself in the shoes of a girl growing up inside this system and not, for example, being able to assemble the fifty gold pieces required to get started on Spellcraft lessons, or nobody giving me a loan for that even if I detect as having 14 Intelligence, or maybe I only detect as 13 Intelligence and can't be a wizard but my husband only has 12 Intelligence so why should he keep all the money I earn?  I do not get the impression that there are banks with offices in the port cities offering to make loans to any woman who wants to take herself to Absalom.  It does not seem to me that in practice this system has been reasonably set up to let people who understand money, and want to make and keep their money, just do that.  It is set up very nicely if you want to be a boy who lives with their parents until they're twenty-five and done with their carpenter apprenticeship and then find a wife so you can own your business and your wife and all of the income that your wife makes, and dispense however much of that to her you find convenient.  It is not set up to be a girl who wants to be treated as owning herself."

"People can be owned, can be treated like this, can be hit by their husbands, if that's what they want."

"The system needs to be set up to handle the exceptions who don't want that, or the system does not, in my eyes, have a right to exist for the sake of those people who do, even if they are a majority."

"I am imagining myself in the shoes of a girl growing up inside this system and not, for example, being able to assemble the fifty gold pieces required to get started on Spellcraft lessons, or nobody giving me a loan for that even if I detect as having 14 Intelligence, or maybe I only detect as 13 Intelligence and can't be a wizard but my husband only has 12 Intelligence so why should he keep all the money I earn?  I do not get the impression that there are banks with offices in the port cities offering to make loans to any woman who wants to take herself to Absalom.  It does not seem to me that in practice this system has been reasonably set up to let people who understand money, and want to make and keep their money, just do that.  It is set up very nicely if you want to be a boy who lives with their parents until they're twenty-five and done with their carpenter apprenticeship and then find a wife so you can own your business and your wife and all of the income that your wife makes, and dispense however much of that to her you find convenient.  It is not set up to be a girl who wants to be treated as owning herself."

"People can be owned, can be treated like this, can be hit by their husbands, if that's what they want."

"The system needs to be set up to handle the exceptions who don't want that, or the system does not, in my eyes, have a right to exist for the sake of those people who do want it, even if they are a majority."

"I am imagining myself in the shoes of a girl growing up inside this system and not, for example, being able to assemble the fifty gold pieces required to get started on Spellcraft lessons, or nobody giving me a loan for that even if I detect as having 14 Intelligence, or maybe I only detect as 13 Intelligence and can't be a wizard but my husband only has 12 Intelligence so why should he keep all the money I earn?  I do not get the impression that there are banks with offices in the port cities offering to make loans to any woman who wants to take herself to Absalom.  It does not seem to me that in practice this system has been reasonably set up to let people who understand money, and want to make and keep their money, just do that.  It is set up very nicely if you want to be a boy who lives with his parents until he's twenty-five and done with his carpenter apprenticeship and then find a wife so he can own his own business and his wife and all of the income that she makes, and dispense however much of that to her he finds convenient.  It is not set up to be a girl who wants to be treated as owning herself."

"People can be owned, can be treated like this, can be hit by their husbands even, if that's what they want."

"The system needs to be set up to handle the exceptions who don't want that, or the system does not, in my eyes, have a right to exist for the sake of those people who do want it, even if they are a majority."

"I am imagining myself in the shoes of a girl growing up inside this system and not, for example, being able to assemble the fifty gold pieces required to get started on Spellcraft lessons, or nobody giving me a loan for that even if I detect as having 14 Intelligence, or maybe I only detect as 13 Intelligence and can't be a wizard but my husband only has 12 Intelligence so why should he keep all the money I earn?  I do not get the impression that there are banks with offices in the port cities offering to make loans to any woman who wants to take herself to Absalom.  It does not seem to me that in practice this system has been reasonably set up to let people who understand money, and want to make and keep their money, just do that.  It is set up very nicely if you want to be a boy who lives with his parents until he's twenty-five and done with his carpenter apprenticeship and then find a wife so he can own his own business and his wife and all of the income that she makes, and dispense however much of that to her he finds convenient.  It is not set up to be a girl who wants to be treated as owning herself."

"People can be owned, can be treated like this, can be hit by their husbands even, if that's what they want."

"The system needs to be set up to handle the exceptions who don't want that, or the system does not, in my eyes, have a right to exist for the sake of those people who do want it, even if they are a majority."