Quotes By Author: Moderata Fonte
“[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.”
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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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clichés,
double-standards,
feminism,
gender,
history,
hypocrisy,
men,
misogyny,
prejudice,
slander,
social-norms,
stereotypes,
truth,
women,