“With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.”
“If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?”
“If wishes were fishes, we'd all throw nets.”
“If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.”
“My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.”
“And thus, the men won the Battle of the Sexes in Milesian times, so that from the Golden Age of Athens until the Golden Age of Rome, when all citizens were free to speak & vote at the State Assemblies, only women, barbarians & slaves were excluded.[INTRO]”