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Elizabeth Gaskell1 quote
A man is so in the way in the house. — Elizabeth Gaskell · 1853Jane Austen1 quote
What are men to rocks and mountains? — Jane Austen · 1813Professor Henry Higgins1 quote
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;
Eternally noble, historically fair;
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Why can't a woman be like that? — Professor Henry Higgins · 1964Valerie Solanas1 quote
The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples. — Valerie Solanas · 1967