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Vicesimus Knox
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“That learning belongs not to the female character, and that the female mind is not capable of a degree of improvement equal to that of the other sex, are narrow and unphilosophical prejudices.”
Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821) first seen 1782 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Essays, Moral and Literary (1782), no. 142
“All sensible people agree in thinking that large seminaries of young ladies, though managed with all the vigilance and caution which human abilities can exert, are in danger of great corruption.”
Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821) first seen 1780 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Liberal Education (1780), § 27
“Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?”
Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821) first seen 1792 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Mary Wollstonecraft, (1792), ch. 7