Gender relations · Skopia

Quotes

45

Feminist literature

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Sexual Economics · 1979

★ 6.1

Novel · Magazine

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

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.

Bring the Pain · 1996

★ 5.4

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

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Books

9

Wuthering Heights

1847★ 8.8

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

1937★ 8.0

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

1985★ 7.7

Lysistrata and Other Plays

411 BC★ 7.1

Orlando

1928★ 7.0

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

1848★ 6.6

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