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{{Quote|"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."|''Summa Theologica'', Vol. I, Q. 92, Art. 1, Reply to Objection 1. <ref>http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1092.htm</ref>}} | {{Quote|"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."|''Summa Theologica'', Vol. I, Q. 92, Art. 1, Reply to Objection 1. <ref>http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1092.htm</ref>}} | ||
{{Quote|"So by such a kind of subjection woman is naturally subject to man, because in man the discretion of reason predominates.|''Summa Theologica'', Volume 1, Q. 92, Art. 1, Reply to Objection 2.}} | {{Quote|"So by such a kind of subjection woman is naturally subject to man, because in man the discretion of reason predominates.|''Summa Theologica'', Volume 1, Q. 92, Art. 1, Reply to Objection 2.}} | ||
==c. 1340s-1400: Geoffrey Chaucer== | |||
{{Quote|"And now of my fifth husband will I tell. | |||
God grant his soul may never get to Hell! | |||
And yet he was to me most brutal, too; | |||
My ribs yet feel as they were black and blue, | |||
And ever shall, until my dying day. | |||
But in our bed he was so fresh and gay, | |||
And therewithal he could so well impose, | |||
What time he wanted use of my belle chose, | |||
That though he'd beaten me on every bone, | |||
He could re-win my love, and that full soon. | |||
I guess I loved him best of all, for he | |||
Gave of his love most sparingly to me.|''Canterbury Tales'': The Wife of Bath's Prologue}} | |||
{{Quote|"We women have, if I am not to lie, | |||
In this love matter, a quaint fantasy; | |||
Look out a thing we may not lightly have, | |||
And after that we'll cry all day and crave. | |||
Forbid a thing, and that thing covet we; | |||
Press hard upon us, then we turn and flee. | |||
Sparingly offer we our goods, when fair; | |||
Great crowds at market for dearer ware, | |||
And what's too common brings but little | |||
price; | |||
All this knows every woman who is wise.|''Canterbury Tales'': The Wife of Bath's Prologue}} | |||
{{Quote|"My liege lady, generally," said he, | |||
"Women desire to have the sovereignty | |||
As well upon their husband as their love, | |||
And to have mastery their man above; | |||
This thing you most desire, though me you kill | |||
Do as you please, I am here at your will." | |||
In all the court there was no wife or maid | |||
Or widow that denied the thing he said ....|''Canterbury Tales'': The Wife of Bath's Tale}} | |||
==1483–1546: Martin Luther== | ==1483–1546: Martin Luther== | ||