In weighty questions the stronger decides, but the lesser cares of life are left to her who is the greater in small things.

The daughters grow up under careful guidance, for the mother is neither ignorant nor inexperienced.
To be virtuous and diligent in her affairs becomes easy to a woman, for she sees that it increases his happiness whose dearest possession she boasts of being, and who belongs to her alone.

The women only do that which pleases us! but the Egyptian men understand the art of making us pleased with that which is really good, and with that alone.

On the shores of the Nile, Phocylides of Miletus and Hipponax of Ephesus would never have dared to sing their libels on women, nor could the fable of Pandora have been possibly invented here!" [Simonides of Amorgos, an Iambic poet, who delighted in writing satirical verses on women.

He divides them into different classes, which he compares to unclean animals, and considers that the only woman worthy of a husband and able to make him happy must be like the bee.