Has it Changed (really) or (Have Men Just Been Added)…

Posted on 24 November 2009

“We are permitted no Books but such as tend to the weakening and Effeminateing the Mind, our Natural Defects are every way indulg’d, and tis look’d upon as in a degree Criminal to improve our Reason, or fancy we have any. We are taught to place all our Art in adorning our Outward Forms, and permitted, without reproach, to carry that Custom even to Extravagancy, while our Minds are entirely neglected, and by disuse of Reflections, fill’d with nothing but the Trifling objects our Eyes are daily entertain’d with. …There is hardly a character in the World more Despicable or more liable to universal ridicule than that of a Learned Woman.” –Lady Mary Whortely Montagu