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“By the time humankind reaches the stage of writing its mythology and laws, patriarchy is definitively established: it is males who write the codes.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.” George Eliot, Middlemarch

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