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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, | {{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, 1259b2-3.}} | ||
{{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."| | ||