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==254-184 BC: Titus Maccius Plautus== | ==254-184 BC: Titus Maccius Plautus== | ||
{{Quote|There's no such thing as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness. (Nam optuma nulla potest eligi; Alia alia pejor est.)|Plautus, Aulularia}} | {{Quote|There's no such thing as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness. (Nam optuma nulla potest eligi; Alia alia pejor est.)|Plautus, Aulularia}} | ||
==234–149 BC: Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)== | |||
{{Quote|Give the reins to a headstrong nature, to a creature that has not been tamed, and then hope that they will themselves set bounds to their licence if you do not do it yourselves. This is the smallest of those restrictions which have been imposed upon women by ancestral custom or by laws, and which they submit to with such impatience. What they really want is unrestricted freedom, or to speak the truth, licence, and if they win on this occasion what is there that they will not attempt?|Livy, ''The Early History of Rome'' <ref>https://files.romanroadsstatic.com/materials/romans/historians/Livy_Early_History_Rome_1-0.pdf</ref>}} | |||
{{Quote|Call to mind all the regulations respecting women by which our ancestors curbed their licence and made them obedient to their husbands, and yet in spite of all those restrictions you can scarcely hold them in ... From the moment that they become your fellows (equals) they will become your masters.Livy, ''The Early History of Rome'' <ref>https://files.romanroadsstatic.com/materials/romans/historians/Livy_Early_History_Rome_1-0.pdf</ref>}} | |||
==c. 200 BC: Bhagavad Gita== | ==c. 200 BC: Bhagavad Gita== | ||