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Quotes by "Moderata Fonte"

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.
— Moderata Fonte The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
Tags: women, truth, stereotypes, social-norms, slander, prejudice, misogyny, men, hypocrisy, history, gender, feminism, double-standards, cliches
[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.
— Moderata Fonte The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
Tags: vice, original-sin, motivation, knowledge, greed, good-and-evil, adam-and-eve
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