Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

-Stowe, Harriet (Elizabeth) ne¤  e Beecher
  UncleTom's Cabin, ch.20.

This mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent, forgetting everysense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady Amberley ought to get a good whipping.

-Victoria in full  Alexandrina Victoria
  Letter to SirTheodore Martin, 29 Mar.The feminist Lady Amberley was Bertrand Russell's mother.