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An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Hipparchia turned down rich suitors to marry Crates, a philosopher who had given away his fortune. When a man mocked her for leaving the loom, she asked if she was wrong to give philosophy the time she would have spent weaving.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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