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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

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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.

Liberal Education (1780)

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.

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