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{{Quote|"Females are weaker and colder in nature, and we must look upon the female character as being a sort of natural deficiency."|''On the Generation of Animals''}} | {{Quote|"Females are weaker and colder in nature, and we must look upon the female character as being a sort of natural deficiency."|''On the Generation of Animals''}} | ||
{{Quote|"For the male is more fitted to rule than the female, unless conditions are quite contrary to nature; and the elder and fully grown is more fitted than the younger and undeveloped."|Arist., ''Politica'', trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, I, XII, 1259b1.}} | {{Quote|"For the male is more fitted to rule than the female, unless conditions are quite contrary to nature; and the elder and fully grown is more fitted than the younger and undeveloped."|Arist., ''Politica'', trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, I, XII, 1259b1.}} | ||
{{Quote|"It is true that in most cases of rule by statesmen there is an interchange of the role of ruler and rules, which aims to preserve natural equality and non-differentiation; nevertheless, so long as one is ruling and the other is being ruled, the ruler seeks to mark distinctions in outward dignitity, in style of address, and in honours paid. [...] As between man and woman this relationship is permanent."|Arist., ''Politica'', trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, I, XII, 1259b1-2.}} | |||
{{Quote|"Clearly, then, moral virtue belongs to all of them; but the temperance of a man and of a woman, of the courage and justice of a man and of a woman, are not, as Socrates maintained, the same; the courage of a man is shown in commanding, of a woman in obeying.|''Politics, Book I''}} | {{Quote|"Clearly, then, moral virtue belongs to all of them; but the temperance of a man and of a woman, of the courage and justice of a man and of a woman, are not, as Socrates maintained, the same; the courage of a man is shown in commanding, of a woman in obeying.|''Politics, Book I''}} | ||
Quote|"All classes must be deemed to have their special attributes; as the poet says of women, 'Silence is a woman's glory'',but this is not equally the glory of man."| | Quote|"All classes must be deemed to have their special attributes; as the poet says of women, 'Silence is a woman's glory'',but this is not equally the glory of man."| | ||
{{Quote|"Again, the freedom in regard to women (referring to the customs of the Spartans) is detrimental both in regard to the purpose of the constitution and in regard to the happiness of the state. For just as man and wife are part of a household, it is clear that the state also is divided nearly in half into its male and female population, so that in all constitutions in which the position of the women is badly regulated one half of the state must be deemed to have been neglected in framing the law."|''Politics, Book II''}} | {{Quote|"Again, the freedom in regard to women (referring to the customs of the Spartans) is detrimental both in regard to the purpose of the constitution and in regard to the happiness of the state. For just as man and wife are part of a household, it is clear that the state also is divided nearly in half into its male and female population, so that in all constitutions in which the position of the women is badly regulated one half of the state must be deemed to have been neglected in framing the law."|''Politics, Book II''}} | ||
{{Quote|"Hence this characteristic existed among the Spartans, and in the time of their empire many things were controlled by the women; what difference does it make whether women rule, or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same."|''Politics, Book II''}} | {{Quote|"Hence this characteristic existed among the Spartans, and in the time of their empire many things were controlled by the women; what difference does it make whether women rule, or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same."|''Politics, Book II''}} | ||
==Circa 300 BC-400 AD: The Jataka Tales== | ==Circa 300 BC-400 AD: The Jataka Tales== | ||