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| So Many Silenced, So Many Unnamed |
When I say woman I mean a sex so weak, so fickle, so
variable, so changeable, so imperfect, that Nature — speaking with all due
reverence and respect — seems to me, when she made woman, to have strayed from
that good sense with which she had created and fashioned all things. I have
pondered over it five hundred times yet I can reach no solution except that
Nature had more regard for the social delight of man and the perpetuating of
the human species than for the perfection of individual womanhood. Certainly
Plato does not know into which category to put women: rational animal or
irrational beast.
François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel Jamie Leigh, Sexism
in Classic Literature
“The garment is an element on which the artist has often
pondered. To her it represents the tension between nature and artifice, between
our desire to be free and our need to represent ourselves.” Jane
Sterbak |
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