“And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natural strength in… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century 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,… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century 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… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century 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… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century 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."… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century 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… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century 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… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century 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… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century 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… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century 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… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century 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… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“Bare strength entitles the Men to no superiority above us” — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.” — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us to… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“IT is enough for the Men to find a thing establish'd to make them believe it well grounded. In all countries we… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state.… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...) and (...) shew our… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“The Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own management, are no… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“But where have [the Men] proved that we are not as capable of guarding ourselves from dangers, as they are of guarding… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“What a wretched circle this poor way of reasoning among the Men draws them insensibly into. Why is learning useless to us?… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“the Men, biased by custom, prejudice, and interest, have presumed boldly to pronounce sentence in their own favour, because possession empowered them… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“It is quite idle (...) to insist so much on bodily strength, as a necessary qualification to military employments. And it is… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“The Men who cannot deny us to be rational creatures, wou'd have us justify their irrational opinion and treatment of us, by… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only reason… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
“What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of expression… — Lady Sophia Fermor 18th century Copy Share Image
