“ Little girls are not to be controlled, as little boys are, to some extent, through their greediness. ”
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education (1762). copy citation

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“either she does not know or she despises that exaggerated cleanliness of body which degrades the soul. Sophy is more than clean, she is pure. I said that Sophy was fond of good things. She was so by nature; but she became temperate by habit and now she is temperate by virtue. Little girls are not to be controlled, as little boys are, to some extent, through their greediness. This tendency may have ill effects on women and it is too dangerous to be left unchecked. When Sophy was little, she did not always return empty handed if she was sent to her mother's cupboard, and she was not quite to be trusted with sweets and sugar-almonds.” source