The education of women should
always be relative to that of men. To
please, to be useful to us, to make us love and esteem them, to educate us when
young, to take care of us when grown up, to advise, to console us, to render
our lives easy and agreeable… Even if
she possessed real abilities, it would only debase her to display them.
J.J. Rousseau, Emile,
1762
Since women are deficient in
reason but abundant in emotion, they ought no longer
to be treated as rational, nor receive any mental education… Among women, we use language implying the
utmost deference for their sex; and they fully believe that the Chief Circle
Himself is not more devoutly adored by us than they are; but behind their backs
they are both regarded and spoken of -- as being little better than “mindless
organisms”.
Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland,
1884
Men have broad shoulders and
narrow hips and accordingly they possess intelligences. Women ought to stay at home; the way they
were created indicates this, for they have broad hips and wide fundament to sit
upon.
Martin Luther, Table
Talk, 1569
The sight of the female form
tells us that woman is not destined for great work, either intellectual or
physical. (Woman is) a kind of
intermediate step between the child and them man, who is a human being in the
real sense… Women exist solely for the
propagation of the race.
Schopenhauer, “On
Women”, 1851
Woman has “come down from the
trees” more slowly than man has.
Theo Lang, The
Difference Between a Man and a Woman, 1971
The female’s chromosomes,
hormones and physical structure make it natural for her to respond, to follow
and to submit.
Richard W.
DeHann, Male, Female, and Unisex, 1977
The woman is naturally made
for two things: household and domestic
tasks and the exercise of pure love and devotion… On the contrary, man has compartments,
sectors, and pigeon holes in his mind; he likes things to be separate and each
in its order. And, although there are
sublime exceptions, he is geared for mathematics.
Jean
Guitton, Feminine Fulfillment