"To endeavour to domineer over conscience is to invade the citadel of heaven" ~ Charles V (France)

To coerce isn't right.

"All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior."

~ Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873), U.S. abolitionist and feminist. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, letter #2: dated July 17, 1837 (1838).

In general, I do not agree with Ms.Grimke. This statement is rather grim ke. People do establish pecking orders and hierarchies. People so barter what they have for what they want ... Subjugation? Idk ... It doesn't seem like love or a loving sort of thing. It sounds a bit like an employer/employee relationship. I understand what she is saying. It's here because I'm thinking about it ... I just don't believe this, as a broad statement is totally true.