Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy (ed. Oxford University Press on Demand, 1994) - ISBN: 9780195090604