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==470–399 BC: Socrates== | ==470–399 BC: Socrates== | ||
{{Quote|"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher."}} | {{Quote|"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher."}} | ||
{{Quote|"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."|Commonly attributed to Socrates, perhaps apocryphal}} | |||
==446–386 BC: Aristophanes== | ==446–386 BC: Aristophanes== | ||
{{Quote|"[Choir of] Men: O botheration take you all! How you (women) cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell"|Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Jack Lindsay translation, 1926 <ref>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+1014</ref>}} | {{Quote|"[Choir of] Men: O botheration take you all! How you (women) cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell"|Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Jack Lindsay translation, 1926 <ref>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+1014</ref>}} | ||