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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."}} | ||
==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>}} | ||
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{{Quote|"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."}} | {{Quote|"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."}} | ||
==155–240: Tertullian== | ==155–240: Tertullian== | ||
{{Quote|"Woman is a temple built upon a sewer."}} | {{Quote|"Woman is a temple built upon a sewer."|De cultu feminarum (The Ornaments of Women)}} | ||
{{Quote|"You are the devil’s gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die ... Woman, you are the gateway to hell."|De cultu feminarum (The Ornaments of Women)}} | |||
==349–407: St John Chrysostom== | ==349–407: St John Chrysostom== | ||
{{Quote|"Amongst all the savage beasts none is found so harmful as woman."}} | {{Quote|"Amongst all the savage beasts none is found so harmful as woman."}} | ||
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==1483–1546: Martin Luther== | ==1483–1546: Martin Luther== | ||
{{Quote|"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes."}} | {{Quote|"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes."}} | ||
{{Quote|"No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise."}} | |||
==1509–1564: John Calvin== | ==1509–1564: John Calvin== | ||
{{Quote|"But woman can never be the best governor, by reason that she being spoiled of the spirit, can never attain to that degree, to be called or judged a good governor. Because in the nature of all woman, lurketh such vices, as in good governors are not tolerable."}} | {{Quote|"But woman can never be the best governor, by reason that she being spoiled of the spirit, can never attain to that degree, to be called or judged a good governor. Because in the nature of all woman, lurketh such vices, as in good governors are not tolerable."}} | ||