Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.


The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (ed. 1803)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am...

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am...

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am...

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am...