“Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.”
― The Book of the City of Ladies
― The Book of the City of Ladies
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
― A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
― A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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