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| == Historical quotes on educated women ==
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| {{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.}}
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| {{quote|A wise woman is twice a fool.|Erasmus, Colloquies.}}
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| {{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.}}
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| {{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.}}
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| {{quote|Men hate learned women.|Tennyson, The Princess. Pt. ii, 1. 442.}}
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| {{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.}}
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| {{quote|He who teaches a woman letters feeds more poison to a frightful asp.|Menanderr, Fragments. No. 702.}}
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| {{quote|Women have great talent, but no genius, for they always remain subjective.|Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation.}}
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| {{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 that they have but little brains.|H. D. Thoreau, Journal, 31 Jan., 1852.}}
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| {{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.}}
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| {{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.}}
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| == References == | | == References == |