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{{Quote|"Women are more inclined to be miserly than men. This is in keeping with the nature of woman, for the women have to be more sparing since they are spending money which they do not earn themselves."}} | {{Quote|"Women are more inclined to be miserly than men. This is in keeping with the nature of woman, for the women have to be more sparing since they are spending money which they do not earn themselves."}} | ||
{{Quote|"Woman has a superior feeling for the beautiful, so far as it pertains to herself".}} | {{Quote|"Woman has a superior feeling for the beautiful, so far as it pertains to herself".}} | ||
{{Quote|"Those guardians who have kindly taken supervision upon themselves see to it that the overwhelming majority of mankind—among them the entire fair sex—should consider the step to maturity, not only as hard, but as extremely dangerous.|''What is Enlightenment?''}} | |||
==1744: Man Superior to Woman by 'A Gentleman'== | ==1744: Man Superior to Woman by 'A Gentleman'== | ||
{{Quote|"Hitherto, the women, conscious of their own inabilities, have cheerfully acknowledged the authority which wisdom gives to men over them, content with the soft dominion which love secures to them over the men ... But the case must necessarily alter from the minute that sex forgets its allegiance to us. Once the women presume to call in question the great duty of vassalage to us, it must be time to withdraw our hearts from their power. They can no longer be safe in the custody of such women as refuse to submit their heads to our authority."|''Man Superior to Woman;or, The Natural Right of the Men to Sovereign Authority Over the Women, Asserted and Defended.''<ref>http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/mansup.pdf</ref>}} | {{Quote|"Hitherto, the women, conscious of their own inabilities, have cheerfully acknowledged the authority which wisdom gives to men over them, content with the soft dominion which love secures to them over the men ... But the case must necessarily alter from the minute that sex forgets its allegiance to us. Once the women presume to call in question the great duty of vassalage to us, it must be time to withdraw our hearts from their power. They can no longer be safe in the custody of such women as refuse to submit their heads to our authority."|''Man Superior to Woman;or, The Natural Right of the Men to Sovereign Authority Over the Women, Asserted and Defended.''<ref>http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/mansup.pdf</ref>}} | ||