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“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“Dispute not with her,—she is lunatic.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore; To one thing constant never.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.” C. S. Lewis, “The Screwtape Letters” - 1942

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“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

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Men's vows are women's traitors!” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“A kind heart he hath; a woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.” William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” - 1602

“To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.” William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” - 1623

“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“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

“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.” John Stuart Mill, “The Subjection of Women” - 1869

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“You women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.” Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“Women . . . spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.” Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace” - 1869

“in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn’t even know he’s been hurt until much later.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.” G. K. Chesterton, “What's Wrong with the World” - 1910

“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“Frailty, thy name is woman!” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“How hard it is for women to keep counsel!” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 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

“Women will love her that she is a woman more worth than any man; men, that she is the rarest of all women.” William Shakespeare, “The Winter's Tale” - 1623

“Who is't can read a woman?” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.” George Bernard Shaw, “The Philanderer” - 1893

“The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

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