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Play · Drama (play)

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

George Bernard Shaw

1905

★ 1.0

Poem · Magazine

I met a Lady in the Meads Full beautiful, a faery's child Her hair was long, her foot was light And her eyes were wild—

1820

★ 1.1

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.

1977

★ 1.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious, admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.

The Quran, The Koran, 4:34 · 632

★ 1.2

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 1.2

Play · Comedy (play)

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 · 1597

★ 1.3

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

1953

★ 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

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

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

Charlotte Whitton

1963

★ 1.9

Song · Pop music

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

I Am Woman · 1971

★ 1.9

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

1981

★ 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

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

The Beggar's Opera · 1728

★ 1.9

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fuller

1843

★ 1.9

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.

Felix Holt, the Radical · 1866

★ 1.9

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

1904

★ 1.9

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

1968

★ 1.9

Film · Fantasy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Fantasy · Comedy drama

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

Big Fish · 2003

★ 1.9

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