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“For a Man ought no more to value himſelf upon being Wiser than a Woman, if he owe his Advantage to a better Education, and greater means of Information, then he ought to boast of his Courage, for beating a Man, when his Hands were bound.”
― Judith Drake, An essay in defence of the female sex in which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, in a letter to a lady / written by a lady.