Spartan Quote by Plutarch
““When asked by a woman from Attica:'Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?', she said: 'Because we are the only ones who give birth to men.””
““When asked by a woman from Attica:'Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?', she said: 'Because we are the only ones who give birth to men.””
![“It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when some foreign lady, as it would seem, told her that the women of Lacedaemon were the only women of the world who could rule men; 'With good reason,' she said, 'for we are the only women…” quote by Plutarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c6/plutarch-597_marriage_it-was-natural-for-spartan-women-to-thin_3148533.jpg)
![“And thus, the men won the Battle of the Sexes in Milesian times, so that from the Golden Age of Athens until the Golden Age of Rome, when all citizens were free to speak & vote at the State Assemblies, only women, barbarians & slaves were excluded.[INTRO]” quote by Nicholas Chong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b9a/nicholas-chong-4441_battle-of-the-sexes_and-thus-the-men-won-the-battle-of-the-s_994582.jpg)
