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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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Women are the door to reconciliation with the world.

Octavio Paz

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Paz, Octavio. Quoted in "A Conversation with the Soul of Mexico: In the Friction between Literature and Politics, Octavio Paz, the Patriarch of Mexican Letters, Has Captured His County's Essence. His One-Word Solution to Mexico's Turmoil? Freedom." Written by Anthony Day and Sergio Munoz. Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 1995.

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Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough.(2) Too much.

Ann Landers

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Landers, Ann. Ann Landers Says: Truth is Stranger. Prentice-Hall, 1968, ch. 2.

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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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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Saki

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Westminster Gazette, Sept. 1904.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Selected Stories of Saki. Everyman's Library, 2017.

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She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 1

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Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 1. Lord Strange's Men, 1592, Rose Theatre, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 3.

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Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?

John Gay

The Beggar's Opera

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Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. 1728, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1, air 19.

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Gay, John. "The Beggar's Opera." The Beggar's Opera and Polly, edited by Hal Gladfelder. Oxford University Press, 2013, act 2, sc. 1, air 19.

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Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.

Big Fish

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Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

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A woman can hardly ever choose...she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.

George Eliot

Felix Holt, the Radical

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 27.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 27.

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Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Noel Coward

Private Lives

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Coward, Noël. Private Lives. Directed by Noël Coward. Performed by Noël Coward and Adrianne Allen and Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier. 1930, King's Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 3.

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Coward, Noël. Private Lives. Methuen Drama, 2023, act 3.

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The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

Shirley Williams

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Williams, Shirley. Quoted in the Observer. 22 Mar. 1981.

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If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

O. Henry

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O. Henry. "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog." The Four Million: A Collection of Short Stories. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906.

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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

Charlotte Whitton

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Whitton, Charlotte. Canada Month. June 1963.

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If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

Helen Reddy

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I Am Woman

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Reddy, Helen and Ray Burton. "I Am Woman." Performed by Helen Reddy. I Don't Know How to Love Him. Capitol Records, 1971.

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Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relationships with men, in their relationships with women, all men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

Marilyn French

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French, Marilyn. The Women's Room. Simon & Schuster, 1977, ch. 19.

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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ethel Barrymore

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Barrymore, Ethyl. Quoted in The Theatre in the Fifties, written by George Jean Nathan. Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.

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From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive.
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire.
They are the books, the arts, the academes
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.

William Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost

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Shakespeare, William. Love's Labour's Lost. 1597, England, UK, act 4, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Love's Labour's Lost." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

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How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

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Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 4.

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