 | "I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."
- Elaine Boosler
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| "Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another."
- George Bernard Shaw
, "Pygmalion" (1913). |
| "Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another."
- H. L. Mencken
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| "I hate women because they always know where things are."
- James Thurber
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| "The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things."
- Jilly Cooper
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| "Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted."
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
, in All About Eve. |
| "For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children."
- Lawana Blackwell
, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999. |
| "Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
- Margaret Fuller
, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. |
| "When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman ?"
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
- Plato
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