" Alexis de Tocqueville took one good hard look at America’s growing colonies and noted: “America is the one country in the world where the most continual care has been taken to trace clearly separated lines of action for the two sexes, and where the wish is for them to walk with equal steps, but always on different paths. "

― Debra Ollivier , What French Women Know About Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind