An idea from The Book of the Courtier

One speaker calls a woman nature’s mistake. Another replies that both sexes are one species, women understand whatever men understand, and men gave themselves a license they punish in women. Both lean on dropped theories of warm and cold bodies, which the reply does not need.

From The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione

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