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{{Quote|[Choir of] Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.|Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Jack Lindsay translation, 1926 <ref>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+1014]</ref>}} | {{Quote|[Choir of] Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.|Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Jack Lindsay translation, 1926 <ref>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+1014]</ref>}} | ||
{{Quote|Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.|Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, line 236-238}} | {{Quote|Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.|Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, line 236-238}} | ||
{{Quote|There is but one thing in the world worse than a shameless woman, and that's another woman.|Thesmorphoriazusae <ref>http://classics.mit.edu/Aristophanes/thesmoph.html</ref>}} | |||
==423–348 BC: Plato== | ==423–348 BC: Plato== | ||
{{Quote|Women are accustomed to creep into dark places, and when dragged out into the light they will exert their utmost powers of resistance ... therefore, as I said before, in most places they will not endure to have the truth spoken without raising a tremendous outcry.|Plato, Laws VI}} | {{Quote|Women are accustomed to creep into dark places, and when dragged out into the light they will exert their utmost powers of resistance ... therefore, as I said before, in most places they will not endure to have the truth spoken without raising a tremendous outcry.|Plato, Laws VI}} | ||