Women are inclined to rage, stirred by insult, petulant, anxious, excessive grief. Women have same capacity for virtue as men. Nature has made women different. You should preserve the differences. Seneca assumes male readers.
Women possess virtus only under certain circumstances.
Usually virtus is masc, voluptas is fem. Excessive grief is womanish. Women can't be expected to control their emotions. EVEN men are prone to grief. Marcia can be consoled like an honorary man.