Dialogue

 1 Repub|             say to story-telling old women, and will nod "Yes" and "
 2 Repub|         kinds of articles, including women's dresses. And we shall
 3 Repub|              is what old men and old women should begin by telling
 4 Repub|              and making them over to women (and not even to women who
 5 Repub|            to women (and not even to women who are good for anything),
 6 Repub|           action or speech of men or women who are mad or bad; for
 7 Repub|          they are of no use, even to women who have a character to
 8 Repub|          marriage, the possession of women and the procreation of children,
 9 Repub|      generally found in children and women and servants, and in the
10 Repub|             is found in children and women, slave and freeman, artisan,
11 Repub|     everybody, that in the matter of women and children "friends have
12 Repub|          nature of this community of women and children-for we are
13 Repub|            What sort of community of women and children is this which
14 Repub|         enough comes the turn of the women. Of them I will proceed
15 Repub|            the possession and use of women and children is to follow
16 Repub|           birth and education of our women to be subject to similar
17 Repub|                You cannot. ~Then, if women are to have the same duties
18 Repub|           and gymnastics. Yes. ~Then women must be taught music and
19 Repub|             all will be the sight of women naked in the palaestra,
20 Repub|    innovation; how they will talk of women's attainments, both in music
21 Repub|           not the natures of men and women differ very much indeed?"
22 Repub|         tasks assigned to men and to women should not be different,
23 Repub| inconsistency in saying that men and women, whose natures are so entirely
24 Repub|            possession and nurture of women and children. ~By Zeus,
25 Repub|         pursuits, and that men's and women's natures are different.
26 Repub|          difference consists only in women bearing and men begetting
27 Repub|      peculiar in the constitution of women which would affect them
28 Repub|            female sex: although many women are in many things superior
29 Repub|              men are the pursuits of women also, but in all of them
30 Repub|              men and none of them on women? ~That will never do. ~One
31 Repub|            this sort? ~Yes. ~Men and women alike possess the qualities
32 Repub|                Obviously. ~And those women who have such qualities
33 Repub|              their wives be the best women? ~Yes, by far the best. ~
34 Repub|          State than that the men and women of a State should be as
35 Repub|            are to be assigned to the women, who are the weaker natures,
36 Repub|              man who laughs at naked women exercising their bodies
37 Repub|          difficulty in our law about women, which we may say that we
38 Repub|             men, will now select the women and give them to them; they
39 Repub|       facilities of intercourse with women given them; their bravery
40 Repub|            offices are to be held by women as well as by men – Yes - ~
41 Repub|             he said, both in men and women those years are the prime
42 Repub|             his mother's mother; and women, on the other hand, are
43 Repub|             will have a community of women and children? ~That will
44 Repub|              money into the hands of women and slaves to keep-the many
45 Repub|           then, I said, that men and women are to have a common way
46 Repub|             as far as they are able, women are to share with the men?
47 Repub|          their valor, whether men or women, with hymns and those other
48 Repub|            population of a city-men, women, and children-are equally
49 Repub|               and if you suppose the women to join their armies, whether
50 Repub|    perfection young and old, men and women alike, and fashion them
51 Repub|        business of the possession of women, and the procreation of
52 Repub|       discuss them all the same. The women and children are now disposed
53 Repub|       applies to men only and not to women as far as their natures
54 Repub|            no precedence among other women. Further, when she sees
55 Repub|              own ill-treatment which women are so fond of rehearsing. ~
56 Repub|          sort of flower. And just as women and children think a variety
57 Repub|           opposite qualities. And of women likewise; there was not,
58 Repub|             of enmity to the race of women, hating to be born of a