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Alfred Tennyson2 quotes
Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Man is the hunter; woman is his game. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Elizabeth Cady Stanton2 quotes
Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customers, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1860The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1848Harry Burns2 quotes
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. — Harry Burns · 1989Homer2 quotes
There is no more trusting in women. — Homer · 700 BCTherefore don't you be gentle to your wife either. Don't tell her everything you know, but tell her one thing and keep another thing hidden. — Homer · 700 BCJohn Stuart Mill2 quotes
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. — John Stuart Mill · 1869The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement. — John Stuart Mill · 1869Oscar Wilde2 quotes
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Abdu'l-Baha1 quote
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. — Abdu'l-Baha · 1912Abigail Adams1 quote
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. — Abigail Adams · 1778Alice Harford1 quote
Millions of years of evolution, right? Right? Men have to stick it in every place they can, but for women, women it is just about security and commitment and whatever the fuck else! — Alice Harford · 1999Andrea Dworkin1 quote
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist bothers to buy a bottle of wine. — Andrea Dworkin · 1979Aristophanes1 quote
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes · 411 BCChris Rock1 quote
Women always ready to settle down. Shit, a woman goes on four good dates, she's like "Why are we bullshittin'? What are you waiting for?" Men—never ready to settle down. Men don't settle down. We surrender. — Chris Rock · 1996Coventry Patmore1 quote
A Woman is a foreign land,
Of which, though there he settle young,
A man will ne'er quite understand
The customs, politics, and tongue. — Coventry Patmore · 1854Craig1 quote
I said "biiiitch"… — Craig · 2012Darryl Jenks1 quote
I'm all for that. Especially with women. You know, they may not admit it, but they all want a man to…take charge. Tell them what to do. — Darryl Jenks · 1988Dave Chappelle1 quote
Chivalry is dead. And women killed it. — Dave Chappelle · 2000Dorothy L. Sayers1 quote
Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man-there has never been such another... Who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women, God help us", or "The ladies, God bless them!" — Dorothy L. Sayers · 1946Elaine Benes1 quote
I hate men, but I’m not a lesbian. — Elaine Benes · 1992Frenchie1 quote
Men are rats, listen to me, they're fleas on rats, worse than that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats. I mean, they're too low for even the dogs to bite. The only man a girl can depend on is her daddy. — Frenchie · 1978George Bernard Shaw1 quote
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. — George Bernard Shaw · 1913George Meredith1 quote
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. — George Meredith · 1859Gloria Steinem1 quote
Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. — Gloria Steinem · 1982Hannah More1 quote
It is humbling to reflect, that in those countries in which the fondness for the mere persons of women is carried to the highest excess, they are slaves; and that their moral and intellectual degradation increases in direct proportion to the adoration which is paid to mere external charms. — Hannah More · 1799Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman,
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Though she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1855Ivy Compton-Burnett1 quote
There is more difference within the sexes than between them. — Ivy Compton-Burnett · 1955Jane Austen1 quote
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen · 1816Joseph P. Bradley1 quote
Man is, or should be, woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. The Constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions of womanhood... The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfil the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator. — Joseph P. Bradley · 1873Juana Ines de la Cruz1 quote
Foolish men who accuse
a woman mindlessly-
you cannot even see
you cause what you abuse. — Juana Ines de la Cruz · 1689Laura Mulvey1 quote
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly. — Laura Mulvey · 1975Leslie Knope1 quote
Guys love it when you can show them you're better than they are at something they love. — Leslie Knope · 2009