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O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works.

John Milton

Paradise Lost

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 8, I. 896.

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"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 9, I. 896.

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In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 134.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 134.

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That's the nature of women... Not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Alexander Pope

Letters of Alexander Pope

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Pope, Alexander. Letter to M. Blount. 1735, I. 270.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Epistle to a Lady." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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A fickle and changeable thing always is woman.

Virgil

Aeneid

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 4.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 4.

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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.

A Streetcar Named Desire

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A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Elia Kazan. Warner Bros., 1951.

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I know when a woman is afraid and pretending not to be.

James Bond

Skyfall

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Skyfall. Directed by Sam Mendes, Eon Productions/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Columbia Pictures, 2012.

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In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.

Dale Cooper

Twin Peaks

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"Rest In Pain." Twin Peaks, written by Mark Frost and David Lynch and Harley Peyton, directed by Tina Rathborne, season 1, episode 4, Propaganda Films and Spelling Entertainment and Lynch/Frost Productions, 1990.

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She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.

Jean Racine

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Racine, Jean. Athalie. 1691, Paris, France, act 3, sc. 3.

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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

On Women

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Ueber die Weiber [On Women]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 2, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "On Women." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you.

El Guapo

Three Amigos!

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Three Amigos. Directed by John Landis, Orion Pictures, 1986.

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Let me tell you a little something I've learned about women. They want you to come get them. They love it.

Garth Algar

Wayne's World

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Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

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Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't. They have to seek it out.

Fleabag

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"Episode #2.3." Fleabag, written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, directed by Harry Bradbeer, season 2, episode 3, Amazon Studios and British Broadcasting Corporation, 2019.

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Women are irrational, that's all there is to that! Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags. They're nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags!

My Fair Lady

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"A Hymn to Him." My Fair Lady. Directed by George Cuko, performed by Rex Smith, Warner Bros., 1964.

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O Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering upon aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!

Sir Walter Scott

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Scott, Walter, Sir. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: William Miller and John Murray, 1808, canto 6, st. 30.

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How fickle is woman.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

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Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming. Selznick International Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Virginians

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century. Bradbury and Evans, 1 Nov. 1857 - 1 Nov. 1859.

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I'm all for that. Especially with women. You know, they may not admit it, but they all want a man to…take charge. Tell them what to do.

Coming to America

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fuller

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Fuller, Margaret. "The Great Lawsuit - Man versus Men: Woman versus Women." The Dial, July 1843.

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Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Dover Publications, 1999.

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What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?

Thomas Gray

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Gray, Thomas. "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes." Collection of Poems by Several Hands. Vol. 2, London, 1748. Originally sent in a letter to Horace Walpole, 1 Mar. 1747.

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