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{{Quote|"Thus neither with thee [woman] nor without thee, can I live."}} | {{Quote|"Thus neither with thee [woman] nor without thee, can I live."}} | ||
{{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."}} | ||
{{Quote|"A virgin princess shared his room, but what escaped her Revealed itself at last as male: he raped her. So yes, it’s true that she was conquered by brute force, But that’s what she’d been wishing for, of course." (Ovid, ''The Art of Love'')}} | |||
==155–240: Tertullian== | ==155–240: Tertullian== | ||
{{Quote|"Woman is a temple built upon a sewer."|De cultu feminarum (The Ornaments of Women)}} | {{Quote|"Woman is a temple built upon a sewer."|De cultu feminarum (The Ornaments of Women)}} | ||