Yes, only my vanity, as you call it. (ANN: You need not have kept away from ME on that account.) From you above all others. You fought harder than anybody against my emancipation. (ANN: Oh, how wrong you are! I would have done anything for you.) Anything except let me get loose from you. Even then you had acquired by instinct that damnable woman's trick of heaping obligations on a man, of placing yourself so entirely and helplessly at his mercy that at last he dare not take a step without running to you for leave. I know a poor wretch whose one desire in life is to run away from his wife. She prevents him by threatening to throw herself in front of the engine of the train he leaves her in. That is what all women do. If we try to go where you do not want us to go there is no law to prevent us, but when we take the first step your breasts are under our foot as it descends: your bodies are under our wheels as we start. No woman shall ever enslave me in that way.

Tanner Monologue from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

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