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==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}} | ||
==c. 408-334 BC: Antiphanes== | |||
{{Quote|One single thing I trust a woman saying. To other statements no attention paying : "When I am dead, I won't return to grieve you." Till death takes place, in naught else I'll believe you.|''Antiphanes: Fragment''.<ref>https://www.archive.org/stream/fragmentsgreekc00palegoog/fragmentsgreekc00palegoog_djvu.txt</ref>}} | |||
{{Quote| What ! When you court concealment, will you tell the matter to a woman? Just as well tell all the criers in the public squares! Tis hard to say which of them louder blares.|''Antiphanes: Fragment''.}} | |||
==384–322 BC: Aristotle== | ==384–322 BC: Aristotle== | ||
{{Quote|"Woman may be said to be an inferior man."}} | {{Quote|"Woman may be said to be an inferior man."}} | ||