If you run down the list of the great Stoics of history, you’d think of Seneca or Marcus Aurelius or Epictetus or Zeno or Cleanthes or Chrysippus. What do all those people have in common? They were all men. In fact, you really have to dig to come up with even one or two “accepted” female Stoics. Does this mean that Stoicism has been entirely composed of men for the last twenty five hundred years? That Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and the male Stoics had a monopoly on suffering? On courage? On mastering emotions? On being disappointed? Of having to make due with an imperfect world? No. Of course not. It’s an omission that needs to be addressed.
….
gutta cavat lapidem 