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• Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

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  Creer, Hombres, Hechos

  Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

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• Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

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  Men, House, Lamps

  Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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• [Eva se dejó llevar y comió el fruto prohibido con un buen fin: adquirir el conocimiento del bien y del mal. Pero a Adán no le movió ese deseo de conocimiento, sino simplemente la codicia: lo comió porque oyó a Eva decir que sabía bien.

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  Evil, Greed, Mind

  Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.94, University of Chicago Press

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• Los hombres fueron creados antes que las mujeres ... Pero eso no prueba su superioridad, sino la nuestra, pues ellos nacieron de la tierra sin vida para que nosotros pudiéramos nacer de la carne viva. ¿Y qué tiene de importante esta prioridad en la creación? Cuando construimos, primero ponemos cimientos en el suelo, cosas sin mérito intrínseco ni belleza, antes de levantar después suntuosos edificios y ornamentados palacios. Las humildes semillas se nutren en la tierra, y más tarde aparecen las hermosas rosas y los perfumados narcisos.

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  Flower, Men, Order

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• [M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.

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  White, Knowing, Envy

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• "But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know how they've managed to make this law in their favor, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well?

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  Sexo, Hombres, Pensamiento

  "The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men".

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• This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all the other accidents of this life: it's not a case of being subjected in the sense of obeying, but rather of suffering an imposition, not a case of serving them fearfully, but rather of tolerating them in a spirit of Christian charity, since they have been given to us by God as a spiritual trial.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Men

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