Occupation: Writer Birth: 1555 Death: 1592
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should b….
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for o….
"But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know how they've managed to make this law….
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these….
Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in….
[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidd….
Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house..