[M]en, though they know full well how many women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.

The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men