An idea from The Symposium

Socrates says he learned about love from Diotima, a wise woman from Mantinea, who once questioned him the same way. No other ancient record names her, so whether she lived is still argued. Hers is the only woman’s voice to reach this all-male room.

From The Symposium by Plato

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