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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter XIXIn context
- Truth & Lies
“it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Marriage
- Men
A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIn context
- Money
I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIIIn context
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Love
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Freedom
The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers⁠—stern and wild ones⁠—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Experience
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XLIIn context
- Advice
- Men
I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool⁠—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IIn context
Her voice is full of money
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
- Money
I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XIIIn context
Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage.
Kate Chopin1850–1904The Awakening (1899), Chapter IIn context
- Marriage
We cannot fight for love as men may do.
We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act II, Scene I, spoken by HelenaIn context
- Love
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by RosalindIn context
- Marriage
- Men
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Family
- Men