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“If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
— Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams (31 March 1776)
“Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation, the shadow of the gods. Man the god's creation only. Woman is light, man is shadow. Could the light do without the shadow?”
— Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Krishna Kanta's Will (tr. Miriam S. Knight, 1895), pt. 2, ch. 15
“More women are wooed for their complexions than for their characters.”
— Arnold Haultain, Hints for Lovers (1909), pp. 29, 41, 47, 116, 150
“A Carvalho le molestaba tomar el sol como un lagarto, Pero Teresa demostraba una gran solidaridad con el termostato habitual en todas las mujeres, animales de sangre fría que necesitan el sol y son capaces de someterse a sus rayos con la beatífica expresión del comulgante o incluso con el éxtasis del mistico dispuesto a la entrega divina.”
— Carvalho did not like lying in the sun like a lizard, but Teresa showed that her body thermostat was the same as that of all other women, cold-blooded creatures who need the sun and are capable of soaking up its rays with the beatific expression of someone taking communion, or even the ecstatic look of a mystic surrendering to the godhead.
“Women are as roses; whose fair flower, Being once display’d, doth fall that very hour.”
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601–2), act 2, sc. 4
“A woman is an angel at ten, a saint at fifteen, a devil at forty, and a witch at fourscore.”
— English proverb, in (1620); cited in G. L. Apperson (ed.) English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases (1929), p. 703

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Notable quotes

Notable quotes