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In the early 20th century, [[Otto Weininger]] predicted an all encompassing "women's movement" would drag too many women into the sciences and arts who have not much real capability or interest in these male spaces. He further noted only a very small minority of masculine, lesbian women could approach genius and male interest in ideas instead of merely embodying vapid horniness. | In the early 20th century, [[Otto Weininger]] predicted an all encompassing "women's movement" would drag too many women into the sciences and arts who have not much real capability or interest in these male spaces. He further noted only a very small minority of masculine, lesbian women could approach genius and male interest in ideas instead of merely embodying vapid horniness. | ||
Edward Dutton suggested only highly religious women are suitable for the sciences.<ref name="dutton"></ref> | Edward Dutton suggested only highly religious women are suitable for the sciences.<ref name="dutton"></ref> | ||
== Historical quotes on educated women == | |||
{{quote|But twill appear, in spite of all enditing,<br />A woman's way to charm is not by writing.|Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, Avistumens: Prologue, l. 31.}} | |||
{{quote|A wise woman ia twice a fool.|Erasmus, Colloquies.}} | |||
{{quote|I hate a learned woman. May there never be<br />in my abode a woman knowing more than a<br />woman ought to know.|Euripides, Hippolytus, 1. 640.}} | |||
{{quote|I hate a woman who is forever poring over the Grammar of Palaemon,<br />who observes all the rules and laws of language, who quotes from<br />ancient poets that I never heard of, and corrects her unlettered friends<br />for slips of speech that no man need trouble about: let husbands at least<br />be permitted to make slips in grammar!|Juvenal, Saltres. Sat. vi, 1. 451.}} | |||
{{quote|Men hate learned women.|Tennyson, The Princess. Pt. ii, 1. 442.}} | |||
{{quote|The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women; white roses please less than red.|O. W Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. Ch. 6.}} | |||
{{quote|He who teaches a woman letters feeds more poison to a frightful asp.|Menanderr, Fragments. No. 702.}} | |||
{{quote|Women have great talent, but no genius, for they always remain subjective.|Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation.}} | |||
{{quote|In the East, women religiously conceal that they have faces; in the West, that they have legs.<br />In both cases they make it evident tbat they have but little brains.|H. D. Thoreau, Journal, 31 Jan., 1852.}} | |||
{{quote|Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.|Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary; Women.}} | |||
{{quote|We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:<br />"Why, sirs, they do all this as well as we."<br />"They hunt old trails," said Cyril, "very well;<br />But when did woman ever yet invent?"|Tennyson, The Princess. Pt. ii, 1. 366.}} | |||
== Memes == | == Memes == | ||