With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed.
ATTRIBUTION:
Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923), U.S. journalist, lecturer, and social reform advocate; relocated to England. Talks and Essays, vol. 4, ch. 7 (1897).
Hypothesizing that the Greek Empire fell because of the subordination of its women.
