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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}} | ||
{{Quote|"Is there any natural activity in which are not better in all these respects than women? We need not waste time over weaving and various cooking operations, at which women are thought to be experts, and get badly laughed at if a man does them better.' 'It's quite true', he replied, 'that in general the one sex is much better at everything than the other. A good many women, it is true, are better than a good many men at a good many things. But the general rule is as you stated it."|''The Republic, Book V''}} | |||
==c. 408-334 BC: Antiphanes== | ==c. 408-334 BC: Antiphanes== | ||