"[W]hat knowledge they [women] have gotten stands out as it were above the very surface of their minds, like the appliqu&eacute;e of the embroiderer, instead of having been interwoven with the growth of the piece, so as to have become a part of the stuff. They did not, like men, acquire what they know while the texture was forming."
Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
More, Hannah. <u>Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education</u>. vol. 2. London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davis, Strand, 1800. Online edition: <a href="http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/histcourse/suffrage/document/hannahma.htm">Link</a>.