She could not resist the opportunity "of showing her superiority in argument over a man " which she had remarked as one of the "feminine follies " of Sara Sullam ; and in her forthright way , Henrietta , who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness "to think of men as the privileged " and "women as submissive and yielding ", felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception - he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair , as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College - until once , in sheer desperation , he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.