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and the boiling
pot, whereon the sex plumes itself and wherein its defeat will expose it to
most laughter?” “You are right,” he said,
“that the one sex1 is far surpassed by the other in
everything, one may say. Many women, it is true, are better than many men in
many things, but broadly speaking, it is as you say.”
“Then there is no pursuit of the administrators of a state that
belongs to a woman because she is a woman or to a man because he is a man.
But the natural capacities are distributed alike among both creatures, and
women naturally share in all pursuits and men in all—
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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