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• If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would…
• Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into…
• Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that…
• Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide…
• Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
• Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is…
• How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in…
• If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful…
• If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they…
• Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge…
• There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his…
• Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because…

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