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If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.
-Italian Proverb
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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
-Bella Abzug
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
-Henry Adams
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
-Joseph Addison
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
-Maya Angelou
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You can get your appetite elsewhere, as long as you eat at home.
-Anonymous
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Universal manhood suffrage, by establishing an aristocracy of sex, imposes upon the women of this nation a more absolute and cruel despotism than monarchy; in that, woman finds a political master in her father, husband, brother, son. The aristocracies of the old world are based upon birth, wealth, refinement, education, nobility, brave deeds of chivalry; in this nation, on sex alone; exalting brute force above moral power, vice above virtue, ignorance above education, and the son above the mother who bore him.
From the Association
-Susan B. Anthony
National Woman Suffrage Association. As quoted in The History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 3, ch. 27, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
-Susan B. Anthony, speech in San Franscisco, July, 1871
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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
-Minna Antrim
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Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.
-Minna Antrim
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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
-Aristotle
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If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
-Mary Astell
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
-Nancy Astor
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She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.
-Margaret Atwood
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What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
-W. H. Auden
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
-Jane Austen
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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
-Jane Austen
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
-Jane Austen
opening lines to Pride and Prejudice
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
-Walter Bagehot
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We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.
-James Baldwin
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Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
-Dave Barry
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Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.
-Basta
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Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself -- on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life...
-Simone de Beauvoir
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