A Monstrous Regiment of Women

For who can deny that it is repugnant to nature that the blind shall be appointed to lead and conduct such as do see, that the weak, the sick and the impotent shall nourish and keep the whole and the strong, and, finally, that the foolish, mad, and frenetic shall govern the discrete and give counsel to such as be sober of mind? And such be all women compared to man in bearing of authority.

—John Knox (1505-1572)

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

(Published in 1558 against Mary Tudor; later applied to Mary Stuart.

Regiment is used in the sense of régime.)