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Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;
And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: from the pillar erected on the Mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury, in the "Examiner", May 31,
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Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when
she was a skilful mistress of her art.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Cupid's Whirligig
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What is lighter than the wind? A feather.
What is lighter than a feather? Fire.
What lighter than a fire? A woman.
What lighter than a woman? Nothing.
[Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma
Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.]
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Harleian Manuscript (no. 3362, folio 47)
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I think Nature hath lost the mould
Where she her shape did take;
Or else I doubt if Nature could
So fair a creature make.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: A Praise of his Lady, in "Tottel's Miscellany"
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It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the
cock is silent.
[Fr., C'est chose qui moult me deplaist,
Quand poule parle et coq se taist.]
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Roman de la Rose, XIV century
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The virtue of her lively looks
Excels the precious stone;
I wish to have none other books
To read or look upon.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Song and Sonnets
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Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul,
Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,
Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act III, sc. 2)
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in
woman.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Source: Concord Days--August--Woman
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Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad,
And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad;
But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their
sadness,
Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Source: Concord Days--August--Woman
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Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their
rudeness,
Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Source: Concord Days--August--Woman
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On one she smiles, and he was blest;
She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!
But 'twas not love which heaved her breast,
Fair child!--it was the bliss within.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Euphrosyne
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Woman's love is writ in water,
Woman's faith is traced in sand.
- Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of Kincaldie,
Author: Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of Kincaldie
Source: Lays of Scottish Cavaliers--Prince Edward at Versailles
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But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Author: Joanna Baillie
Source: Basil (act V, sc. 3)
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Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung,
Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;
She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave,
Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave.
Author: Eaton Stannard Barrett
Source: Woman (pt. I, l. 141)
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You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib;
she was really made from his funny bone.
Author: Sir James Matthew Barrie
Source: What Every Woman Knows
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Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
What an inviting hell invented.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Comedy of Monsieur Thomas (act III, sc. 1)
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Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise:
At least be more than I was; and be sure
You credit anything the light gives life to
Before a man.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Maid's Tragedy (act II, sc. 2)
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One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Source: The Second Sex
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"And now, Madam," I addressed her, "we shall try who shall get the
breeches."
Author: William Beloe
Source: Miscellanies, translation of a 1540 Latin story by Antonius Musa Brassavolus
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And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying,
We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us
be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. IV, v. 1)
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a
brawling woman in a wide house.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXI, v. 9)
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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over
my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's
a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
Author: Nadia Boulanger
Source: on becoming first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra, recalled on her death, see "Intern
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Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the
shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous
woman, which are to keep home and be silent.
Author: William de Britaine
Source: Human Prudence, (ed. 1726) p. 134
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You forget too much
That every creature, female as the male,
Stands single in responsible act and thought
As also in birth and death.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. II, l. 472)
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A worthless woman! mere cold clay
As all false things are! but so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware:
I would not play her larcenous tricks
To have her looks!
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Bianca among the Nightingales (st. 12)
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Author: Anita Brookner
Source: None
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All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her.
Author: Nizar Gabani
Source: None
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When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
Author: Dame Edith Evans
Source: None
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You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Author: Erica Jong
Source: None
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They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.
Author: Kate Field
Source: None
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Author: Washington Irving
Source: None
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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Author: Chauncey Depew
Source: None
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Source: None
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: None
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In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
Source: None
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Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
Author: Congreve
Source: None
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To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
Author: Sir Richard Steele
Source: None
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Author: Dave Barry
Source: None
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Source: None
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