Famous quotes containing the words females and/or tend:
“Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses ... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)