Women

A woman may be lawfully paid without her guardian’s sanction, and the payer is discharged of liability, because, as we have just mentioned, a woman does not need her guardian’s sanction for the alienation of a non-mancipable thing, provided always that she receives actual payment:

We must next observe, that neither a woman nor a ward (pupillus) can aliene a mancipable thing without their guardian’s sanction:

Thus a woman lending money without the guardian’s sanction passes the property therein to the borrower, money being a non-mancipable thing, and so imposes a contractual obligation on the borrower.

Rigors commence in women, especially at the loins, and spread by the back to the head;

A woman does not take the gout, unless her menses be stopped.

A woman does not become ambidexterous.

And know that the thing most ruinous to religion, most wearing to the body, most wasteful of money, most harmful to the intellect, and swiftest in carrying off dignity and gravity, is being enticed by women.

And if you are in company, do not sweep a whole people into abuse or blame, and do not disparage any name out of the names of men and women;

[9] (2) Those throngs at the sessions of audition, in the author's age and before it and after it, were for nothing but the registering of their names in the audition-certificates — nurslings and boys, youths and men of middle age, men and women — as having been present at, or having heard, such-and-such a book.

He arranged them by the musnads of the Companions in five classes:

for cleanliness is part of manly virtue, and affectation is for women.

Hence it appears, how frivolous is the reasoning of those, who reject the testimony of women on account of their weakness;

let there be modesty toward women, and your gaze turned down to the earth.

Furthermore, I had no patience with the perversity of men who take women in marriage and make them partners in all the relations of life, and then are not satisfied with the compacts which they have made but by their own lawless pleasures bring pain to those whom they expect never to cause them pain and who, though honest in all other partnerships, are without conscience in the partnership of marr …

Moreover, I saw that while the majority of people are masters of themselves in other matters, even the best are slaves to the passions whose objects are boys and women;

I did not think I should have some children by a woman of humbler station and others by one of higher degree, nor that I should leave after me bastard progeny, as well as progeny of legitimate birth;

and thence it is, that feme coverts are exempted to do suit in inferior courts.

But women, infants within the age of twenty-one years, deaf, dumb, idiots, those who are indicted or appealed of mortal felony, before they be acquitted, diseased persons, and excommunicated persons are exempted from doing suit.

The first is that the delights of sensible things are the objects of sexual union and the objects of eating;

women, and perfume;

No, we must remember, first, that ours is a woman’s nature, and accordingly not suited to battles against men;

Therefore we must defend those who respect order, and in no way can we let a woman defeat us.

While I live, no woman will rule me.

The wife who was told by her dying husband, "This debt is to be paid by you," must be made to pay it even if she did not agree, if the wealth has devolved upon the wife.

A debt incurred by a wife together with her husband or son, or by herself alone, must be paid;

In all offenses, whatever monetary fine is prescribed for a man, women should pay half of that;

and a second husband is nowhere prescribed for virtuous women.

[Slo_23s-ab] nadīnāṁ ca latānāṁ ca strīṇāṁ ca kuṭilā gatiḥ | [Slo_23s-cd] yadi satyā bhaven nārī śilāyāṁ kumudaṁ bhavet || 23 ||

No woman is straight;

There are three things whose path in the world is not straight.

And since both the indoor and the outdoor tasks demand labour and attention, God from the first adapted the woman’s nature, I think, to the indoor and man’s to the outdoor tasks and cares.

To the woman, since he has made her body less capable of such endurance, I take it that God has assigned the indoor tasks.

Thus, to be woman it is more honourable to stay indoors than to abide in the fields, but to the man it is unseemly rather to stay indoors than to attend to the work outside.