The Malleus Maleficarum (published in 1487 by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger)
“If we inquire, we find that nearly all the kingdoms of the world have been overthrown by women.”
- From The Malleus Maleficarum (Part I, Question 6) by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, translated by Montague Summers (Dover Publications, 1971).