The general intellectual inferiority of women does not make them defective or inferior simply speaking, but only in the particular natural order, in comparison to most males and to beings with a more perfect nature—namely, the angels.
Catholic philosopher and theologian
Summa Theologica and other writings
c. 1265-1274
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