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- A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.
- Judith Brocklehurst, Darcy And Anne
- There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast: Unseemly woman in a seeming man! Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 3
- I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act II, sc. 4
- A woman impudent and mannish grown is not more loathed than an effeminate man in time of action.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- Frailty, thy name is woman!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 2
- Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman's nay doth stand for naught.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
- To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
- I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act III, sc. 2
- A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, muddy,
ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Taming of the Shrew, Act V, sc. 2
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