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Topic·Men and women✕clear

Play · Tragic play

Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

William Congreve

1697

★ 8.8

Song · Rock music

I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no girl reaction.

The Rolling Stones

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction · 1965

★ 7.9

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 7.8

Play · Comedy (play)

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing · 1600

★ 7.8

Motto · Newspaper

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

1868

★ 7.1

The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want?

1925

★ 7.1

Song · Pop music

If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it.

Single Ladies · 2008

★ 6.5

Philosophical literature

In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 6.5

Scripture · Religious literature

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Genesis 2:23

1405 BC

★ 6.3

In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.

1880

★ 6.1

Autobiography and memoir

You will laugh when you learn that I thought nothing of deceiving idiots, scoundrels and fools when I needed to do so. As for my deceptions of women, these are not of the sort to be tallied, since when love has a hand in things, each party usually dupes the other.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791

★ 6.0

Philosophical literature

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist · 1895

★ 5.5

Novel · Magazine

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 5.5

When two people take each other on terms of perfect equality, without the desire of one to control the other, to make the other subservient, it is a beautiful thing. It is the truest and highest state of life.

Susan B. Anthony

1896

★ 5.4

Song · Country music

Stand by your man And show the world you love him, Keep giving all the love you can.

Stand by Your Man · 1968

★ 5.4

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.

Bring the Pain · 1996

★ 5.4

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 5.3

Song · Great American songbook

Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.

Anything You Can Do · 1946

★ 5.3

Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Venus in Furs · 1870

★ 5.1

Essay · Feminist literature

Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 4.7

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