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“For all those suffering from an inferiority complex, this is a miraculous liniment; no one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or more disdainful, than a man anxious about his own virility.”
Simone de Beauvoir
,
The Second Sex
“A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.”
George Eliot
,
Middlemarch
“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
Jane Austen
,
Sense and Sensibility
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