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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
It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Beauty
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,⁠—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Colley Cibber1671–1757Love’s Last Shift, Act IV (1696)
There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard.
Hillary Clintonborn 1947Keynote Address at the Vital Voices Conference in Vienna, Austria (11 July 1997)
- Democracy
If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.
Hillary Clintonborn 1947White House years (1993–2000) (September 5, 1995)
“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” So must we all.
Hillary Clintonborn 1947Tweet (8 February 2017)
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 2, Vol. II; LXXXIX
- Love
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon: or Many Things (ed. 1822), vol. 1, p. 150
Heav’n hath no rage like love to hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.
William Congreve1670–1729The Mourning Bride (1697), Act III, scene viii
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly1868–1916The Re-Conquest of Ireland (1915), ch. VI “Woman”; repr. in P. Berresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly: Selected Writings (1973), p. 191
- Work
Women need a reason to have sex while men just need a place.
Billy Crystalborn 1948Interview with Oprah Winfrey
- Men
- Sex
What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.
Salvador Dalí1904–1989In The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí—first publication in 1942
- Comedy
Men’s minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
- Men
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Obituary for Emmy Noether (1935)
- Genius