is decided that the minds of women are defective. That the fibers of the brain are weak. That because women menstruate regularly the supply of blood to the brain is weakened. All abstract knowledge, all knowledge which is dry, it is cautioned, must be abandoned to the laborious and solid mind of man. “For this reason,” it is further reasoned, “women will never learn geometry.”
I am feeling that my brain is defective while I’m reading some of this. And then I get to the last line of this quote and it says women can never learn geometry. And that’s the subject. I struggled with in high school and had to give up mathand I fell off the university track.
