#superior

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. ↗

— Edward Young

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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#equality #freedom #gender #independence #men

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

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