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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by Lady BracknellIn context
- Age
I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906A Doll’s House (1879), Act III, spoken by NoraIn context
- Marriage
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Lord Byron1788–1824She Walks in Beauty (1815)In context
- Beauty
A man, at least, is free; he may travel over passions and over countries, overcome obstacles, taste of the most far-away pleasures. But a woman is always hampered.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Madame Bovary (1857), Part II, Chapter ThreeIn context
- Freedom
- Men
She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks.
Guy de Maupassant1850–1893The Necklace (1884)In context
- Luck
The lady protests too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act III, Scene II, spoken by QueenIn context
- Truth & Lies
I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all⁠—it is very tiresome
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- History
I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are⁠—or, at all events, that I must try and become one.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906A Doll’s House (1879), Act III, spoken by NoraIn context
- Freedom
I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
Washington Irving1783–1859The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)In context
- Love
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,
’Tis woman’s whole existence
Lord Byron1788–1824Don Juan (1819–1824), Canto the First (2 of 2)In context
- Love
- Men
When a woman is ugly they always say she has beautiful hair or eyes.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act III, spoken by SoniaIn context
- Beauty
For war from now on is the Women’s affair.
Aristophanes446–386 BCLysistrata (411 BC), spoken by LysistrataIn context
- War & Peace
I am a woman, but I’m not a fool.
And what of natural intelligence I own
Has been filled out with the remembered precepts
My father and the city-elders taught me.
Aristophanes446–386 BCLysistrata (411 BC), spoken by LysistrataIn context
- Intelligence
I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it.
J. K. Rowlingborn 1965Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (10 June 2020)
I don’t necessarily consider myself to be an icon, but I do consider myself to be a feminist.
Gillian Andersonborn 1968When asked if she considered herself to be a feminist icon – given the many strong female characters she portrayed — “Dallas Comic Con—May 2015—The X Files—Gillian Anderson” (May 31, 2015)