Feminism

'What, love a rake, a man of professed gallantry? impossible. -- To me, a common rake is as odious, as a common prostitute is to a man of the nicest feelings. -- Where can be the pride of inspiring a passion, fifty others can equally inspire? or the transport of bestowing favours, where the appetite is already cloyed by fruition of the self-same enjoyments?' -- Miss Milner in A Simple Story

Sometimes these kind of lines in books can also refer to those of the fairer sex. don't you think so?