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“BRIDE, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“A woman is shut up in a kitchen or a boudoir, and one is surprised her horizon is limited; her wings are cut, and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

“I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“Ah me, how weak a thing the heart of woman is!” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Hound of the Baskervilles” - 1902

“A man without a woman is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“A woman's standard of truthfulness was tacitly held to be lower: she was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.” Edith Wharton, “The Age of Innocence” - 1920

“Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel.” Honoré de Balzac, “Father Goriot” - 1835

“Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.” Mao Zedong, “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung” - 1964

“He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.” Emma Goldman, “Anarchism and Other Essays” - 1910

“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.” Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being?” Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.” Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“A woman’s life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you’ll learn that soon enough... and the parts that look like magic often turn out to be messiest of all.” George R. R. Martin, “A Clash of Kings” - 1999

“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?” Thomas Hardy, “The Return of the Native” - 1878

“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Hound of the Baskervilles” - 1902

“If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“Proper deformity seems not in the fiend so horrid as in woman.” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.” William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” - 1623

“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“She has man's brain, a brain that a man should have were he much gifted, and a woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at once, both sweet and deep.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. She was the one whose words hurt him.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“Henrietta was a literary woman, and the great advantage of being a literary woman was that you could go everywhere and do everything.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it; but not upon such as thou.” Walter Scott, “Ivanhoe” - 1820

“And just look at these men: their eye saith it—they know nothing better on earth than to lie with a woman.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a...” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“One of the most important questions a woman can ask herself: What do I really want—and what is my spirit telling me is the best way to proceed?” Oprah Winfrey, “What I Know For Sure” - 2014

“To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that...” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

“Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

“To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.” Emma Goldman, “Anarchism and Other Essays” - 1910

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.” Jane Austen, “Northanger Abbey” - 1817

“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a...” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress... a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.” Charles Bukowski, “Post Office” - 1971

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