“It must appear to every one (...) a matter of the greatest surprise, to observe the universal prevalence of prejudice and custom… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Then Cato is forced at last to own that the subjection we are kept under by that arrogant sex, is the effect… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“(...) How many ladies have there been, and still are, who deserve place among the learned; and who are more capable of… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“So weak are their [Men's] intellectuals, and so untuned are their organs to the voice of reason, that custom makes more absolute… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natural strength in the one… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“If from immemorable time, the Men had been so little envious, and so very impartial, as to do justice to our talents, by admitting… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men are weak… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“it appears that there is no other difference between Men and Us than what their tyrany has created, it will then appear how unjust… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Let us treat Women as our equals, (says [the 'blubblering dotard' xD Cato]) and they will immediately want to become our mistresses." 'Tis Cato… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack or defend.… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great difference they… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately find the spaniel metamorphosed into a tyger,… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university chairs, it… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share in with… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“There are some however more condescending, and gracious enough to confess, that many Women have wit and conduct; but yet they are of opinion,… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
