A woman might claim to retain some of the child’s faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.
ATTRIBUTION:
Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist, writer. “Womanpower,” The Female Eunuch (1970).
