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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“He went to the deuce for a woman. There must be good in a man who will do that.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.” William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” - 1623

“Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.” William Shakespeare, “The Rape of Lucrece” - 1594

“For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.” G. K. Chesterton, “What's Wrong with the World” - 1910

“It seems that some women love to be exploited. When they are not exploited, they exploit the man.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.” Anthony Trollope, “Phineas Redux” - 1874

“These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.” Ian Fleming, “Casino Royale” - 1953

“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 represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” Thomas Hardy, “Far from the Madding Crowd” - 1874

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.” Margaret Atwood, “Cat's Eye” - 1988

“Men have scars, women mysteries.” George R. R. Martin, “A Feast for Crows” - 2005

“Thus while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.” C. S. Lewis, “The Screwtape Letters” - 1942

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.” Jane Austen, “Persuasion” - 1816

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