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Topic·Men and women✕clear

Play · Drama (play)

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

George Bernard Shaw

1905

★ 1.0

Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state And all the fawning flatterers hate: Value yourselves, and men despise You must be proud if you'll be wise.

To the Ladies · 1703

★ 1.1

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

1778

★ 1.1

Novel · Modernist literature

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

In Search of Lost Time · 1913

★ 1.1

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications.

1891

★ 1.2

Scripture · Religious literature

Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 5:33

62

★ 1.3

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Susan B. Anthony

1875

★ 1.3

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Emma · 1816

★ 1.4

Play · Comedy (play) · Comedy

True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the Man so often should outlive the Lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

William Congreve

The Way of the World · 1700

★ 1.8

In this century, which is the century of light and the revelation of mysteries... It is well established that mankind and womankind as parts of composite humanity are coequal and that no difference in estimate is allowable, for all are human.

The Promulgation of Universal Peace · 1912

★ 1.8

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.

1977

★ 1.8

It never ceases to puzzle me, that, while men's and women's bodies fit jigsaw-tight in an altogether miraculous way their minds remain wretchedly unaligned.

Beryl Bainbridge

1991

★ 1.8

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

The Beggar's Opera · 1728

★ 1.9

To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman.

1906

★ 1.9

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

1906

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play) · Comedy of manners · Comedy

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Private Lives · 1930

★ 1.9

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men-at least they can cry.

1939

★ 1.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way.

The Grapes of Wrath · 1940

★ 1.9

TV program · Coming of age (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Coming of age · Comedy

I always figured girls knew exactly what they wanted. They knew-they had a plan. Or maybe they didn’t. Maybe they were just as confused as we were. Isn’t that great? It's-it’s horrible. They don’t know either. That means nobody knows.

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)

The Wonder Years · 1989

★ 1.9

Play · History (play)

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

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 1 · 1592

★ 1.9

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