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Quote 2. Your bodies, and not your brains, are stronger than ours. Believe me, it is well for you that you are able to beat us, or such is the superiority of our understanding, we should make all of you what the brave, and witty, and polite are already - our slaves. Meaning. These observations on the superiority of women are progressive not just for the time, but also for having been written by a man. In a world where men control the marriage contract, she suggests that women could still control aspects if they use subterfuge and cleverness - this claim is played out in many characters later. There is an irony, however, in that her words of wisdom and warning are followed later by the revelation that she is not as astute a judge as she first imagined. Her feminine wiles are only useful in terms of deceit and baseness; when Sophia has a pure love for Tom, she is unable to understand it, and thinks the affection is directed towards Blifil.