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seed that lands upside down in the ground will wheel—root and stem—in great U-turns until it rights itself. But a human child can know it’s pointed wrong and still consider the direction well worth a try.
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“It’s not surprising that the philosopher who introduced the idea of radical doubt was a woman, since women learn to question themselves from a young age.”
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
“transcendence through interdependence. The love of others is a treacherous but necessary path and the only one available to us, because we are not gods.”
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
“In an exchange between a beguine and a French church master, the beguine asserted her superiority: “You glow, we take fire. / You assume, we know.”572”
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
“For too long we have ignored the dissenting voices that complicate the canon. The men of the Enlightenment were brave thinkers challenging traditional modes of thought, but the women of the Enlightenment were also brave, highlighting the ways in which men’s thinking fell short of their own ideals.”
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
“all life is suffering and that the trick is to find the suffering that’s worth longing for.”
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
― How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
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