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Quotation from Generation of Animals by Aristotle
“For the female is, as it were, a mutilated male”
Generation of Animals, Book II, Ch. 3 (737a), trans. Arthur Platt (1910)
A notorious statement of Aristotle's theory that the female is a less-heated version of the male; it should be read as a historical claim, since disproved.
Citation: "For the female is, as it were, a mutilated male" — Aristotle, Generation of Animals, Book II, Ch. 3 (737a), trans. Arthur Platt (1910). (id aristotle-generation-of-animals-q6)
