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““We’ll encounter opposition, won’t we, if we give women the same education that we give to men,” Socrates says to Galucon. “For then we’d have to let women ... exercise in the company of men. And we know how ridiculous that would seem.” ... Convention and habit are women’s enemies here, and reason their ally.”
—Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947)

“The “Green-Eyed Monster” causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.”
—Minna Antrim (b. 1861)