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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a roma...

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.

That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, ...

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I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously wh...

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If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

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Oscar WildeLord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

LADY BRACKNELLThirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very high...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if sh...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both ...

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the f...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.""Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and w...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has falle...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.

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Otto WeiningerSex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

Every time I saw Lacey, she'd gained five more pounds. She was turning into the kind of obese girl w...

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Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her ...

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She ignored my observation. This generally happens with me. Show me a woman, I sometimes say, and I ...

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She was, in short, melted by his distress, as so often happens with the female sex. Poets have frequ...

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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situati...

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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lig...

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Over your breasts of motionless current,over your legs of firmness and water,over the permanence and...

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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resou...

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Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ...

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Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she m...

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I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed th...

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Oh, as far as unsexing is concerned, who are we to throw stones? With us any girl that cannot find a...

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You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some a...

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ...

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We all know that when the lights are out all women are the same height!

What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it o...

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There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, tr...

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They fight like puppies. They are young, and boys. They are full of anger and impatience. Women have...

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There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.

Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in cho...

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In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not j...

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From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality fo...

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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for ...

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She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow

The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intell...

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I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The othe...

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Paulo CoelhoEleven Minutes

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-s...

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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she wa...

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To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all ...

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Women in India experience much worse suffering, humiliation and slavery in all spheres than even the...

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When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better th...

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A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil

Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.

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Peter AckroydThe Canterbury Tales: A Retelling

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

Any woman can weep without tears," she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their han...

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Peter S. BeagleThe Last Unicorn

And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and...

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Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle

Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can wise if you want to but be respected that is ess...

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The idea that women's strong attachments to each other are what make them so vulnerable is horrifyin...

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Phyllis CheslerWoman's Inhumanity to Woman

American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn...

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The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-...

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We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior...

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Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on ...

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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in ...

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It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. T...

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It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the...

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In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening ...

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Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal...

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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose th...

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Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long...

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I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy...

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I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetr...

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Rabindranath TagoreThe Home and the World

The time has come when I must divest Bimala of all the ideal decorations with which I decked her. It...

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We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak.""Women...

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And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, h...

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She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth...

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Girls and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate men's behavior and...

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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, ...

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquen...

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A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.

Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignoranc...

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There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected ...

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Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast ...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

I like games of chance, including women.

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was ...

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A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. S...

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People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pr...

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The word “idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent...

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Rebecca WestBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...

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I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands ...

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My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over...

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