Quotes · Skopia

45 quotes

Sexual Economics · 1979

★ 6.1

Novel · Magazine

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 5.5

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

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

Bring the Pain · 1996

★ 5.4

Novel

She assured them, too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 4.4

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

Chivalry is dead. And women killed it.

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly · 2000

★ 4.0

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

I hate men, but I’m not a lesbian.

Elaine Benes

Seinfeld · 1992

★ 4.0

Political literature · Feminist literature

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 3.9

TV program · Sketch comedy · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

I said "biiiitch"…

Craig

Key & Peele · 2012

★ 3.9

Play · Comedic play · Greek theater

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

Aristophanes

Lysistrata · 411 BC

★ 3.8

Magazine

Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

1982

★ 3.8

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her.

Harry Burns

When Harry Met Sally... · 1989

★ 3.8

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Guys love it when you can show them you're better than they are at something they love.

Leslie Knope

Parks and Recreation · 2009

★ 3.8

Foolish men who accuse a woman mindlessly- you cannot even see you cause what you abuse.

Juana Ines de la Cruz

1689

★ 3.7

Magazine

Man has his will,—but woman has her way!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is It · 1857

★ 3.7

Letter

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

1860

★ 3.7

Essay · Political literature

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

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 3.7

Novel

Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Louisa May Alcott

1869

★ 3.7

Essay · Feminist literature

It is the masculine values that prevail... This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.7

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Even if a husband lives two hundred fucking years, he'll never be able to discover his wife's real nature. I mean, I might be able to comprehend the universe, but, I'll never discover the truth about you. Never.

Paul

Last Tango in Paris · 1972

★ 3.7

Film · Psychological (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological · Drama

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

Eyes Wide Shut · 1999

★ 3.7

Novel

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

George Meredith

1859

★ 3.6

Essay · Political literature

The 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

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 3.6

Novel

It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

Far From the Madding Crowd · 1874

★ 3.6

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.

Harry Burns

When Harry Met Sally... · 1989

★ 3.6

Political literature

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

1799

★ 3.5

Poem

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

The Princess · 1847

★ 3.5

Poem

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

The Angel in the House · 1854

★ 3.5

Poem

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

Vera Brittain

1926

★ 3.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

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

Bradwell v. State of Illinois · 1873

★ 3.5

Essay

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

1946

★ 3.5

Play

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

Pygmalion · 1913

★ 2.7

Poem · Epic poem

There is no more trusting in women.

Homer

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 2.4

Short story

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

1891

★ 2.1

Poem

Man is the hunter; woman is his game.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess · 1847

★ 2.0

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

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

Coming to America · 1988

★ 2.0

Speech

The 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

1848

★ 1.9

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

The Song of Hiawatha · 1855

★ 1.9

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Mother and Son · 1955

★ 1.9

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Romantic comedy · Musical

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

Grease · 1978

★ 1.9

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

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Noel Coward

Private Lives · 1930

★ 1.9

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