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.

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[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…

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[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…

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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…

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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…

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"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…

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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…

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