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Sexism Quotes by Euripides

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“Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.”

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“Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.”

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