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Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Andrea Dworkin

Sexual Economics

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Dworkin, Andrea. Letters from a War Zone. Dutton, 1989, pt. 3.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 3.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4.

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Women always ready to settle down. Shit, a woman goes on four good dates, she's like "Why are we bullshittin'? What are you waiting for?" Men—never ready to settle down. Men don't settle down. We surrender.

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

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She assured them, too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 24.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.

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Chivalry is dead. And women killed it.

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly

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Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

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I hate men, but I’m not a lesbian.

Elaine Benes

Seinfeld

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"The Subway." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Larry Charles, directed by Tom Cherones, season 3, episode 13, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1992.

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I said "biiiitch"…

Key & Peele

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"Bitch." Key and Peele, written by Jordan Peele and Sean Conroy and Rebecca Drysdale, directed by Peter Atencio, season 1, episode 1, Cindylou and Martel & Roberts Productions, 2012.

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I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 4.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

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No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her.

When Harry Met Sally…

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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

Aristophanes

Lysistrata

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Aristophanes. Λυσιστράτη [Lysistrata]. c. 411 BC, Athens, Greece.

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Aristophanes. "Lysistrata." Lysistrata and Other Plays. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Guys love it when you can show them you're better than they are at something they love.

Leslie Knope

Parks and Recreation

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"Hunting Trip." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Dan Goor, directed by Greg Daniels, season 2, episode 10, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2009.

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Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

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Steinem, Gloria. "Words and Change." Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983. Originally published in Ms. Magazine, Jul./Aug. 1982.

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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 2.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

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