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{{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."}} | {{Quote|"No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise."}} | ||
{{Quote|"What defects women have, we must check them for in private, gently by word of mouth, for woman is a frail vessel.|''Table-Talk'', DCXXXVII}} | |||
{{Quote|"“For woman seems to be a creature somewhat different from man, in that she has dissimilar members, a varied form and a mind weaker than man. Although Eve was a most excellent and beautiful creature [...] yet she was a woman. For as the sun is more glorious than the moon, though the moon is a most glorious body, so woman, though she was a most beautiful work of God, yet she did not equal the glory of the male creature.”|''Commentary on Genesis'', Chapter 2, Part V, 27b. <ref>http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48193/48193-h/48193-h.htm#sect21</ref>}} | |||
==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."}} | ||