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{{Quote|"Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude."}} | {{Quote|"Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude."}} | ||
{{Quote|On the first post-resurrection appearance of Jesus to women rather than to men: "I consider this was done by way of reproach, because they [the men] had been so tardy and sluggish to believe. And indeed, they deserve not only to have women for their teachers, but even oxen and asses ... Yet it pleased the Lord, by means of those weak and contemptible vessels, to give display of his power."|Commentary on the Gospel of John}} | {{Quote|On the first post-resurrection appearance of Jesus to women rather than to men: "I consider this was done by way of reproach, because they [the men] had been so tardy and sluggish to believe. And indeed, they deserve not only to have women for their teachers, but even oxen and asses ... Yet it pleased the Lord, by means of those weak and contemptible vessels, to give display of his power."|Commentary on the Gospel of John}} | ||
==1608-1674: John Milton== | |||
{{Quote|"Rather than solid virtue; all but a rib | |||
Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears, | |||
More to the part sinister, from me drawn; | |||
Well if thrown out, as supernumerary | |||
To my just number found. Oh, why did God, | |||
Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven | |||
With Spirits masculine, create at last | |||
This novelty on earth, this fair defect | |||
Of nature, and not fill the world at once | |||
With men, as angels, without feminine; | |||
Or find some other way to generate | |||
Mankind? This mischief had not been befallen, | |||
And more that shall befall; innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares."|''Paradise Lost'', Chapter X: 864-878.}} | |||
==1613–1680: François de La Rochefoucauld== | ==1613–1680: François de La Rochefoucauld== | ||