Woman is in some respects defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from a defect in the active force, or from some material indisposition, or even from some external change, such as that of the south wind, which is moist, as the Philosopher observes.
— Thomas Aquinas
Medieval
Catholic philosopher and theologian
