"Fraily thy name is woman!"

Gender, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Life

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"Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Women are binding and men are commanding."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"When it comes to men, I appreciate them, don't bash them and never love them."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Gender, Appreciation, Men, Independence, Respect

"No wonder then that men who cared, who were open to change, often just gave up, falling back on the patriarchal masculinity they found so problematic. The individual men who did take on the mantle of a feminist notion of male liberation did so only to find that few women respected this shift. Once the 'new man' that is the man changed by feminism was represented as a wimp, as overcooked broccoli dominated by powerful females who were secretly longing for his macho counterpart, masses of men lost interest."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Gender, Life, Observation, Reality

"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen."

Stephen King, American Author

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Explore more quotes by William Shakespeare

"Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more."

Youth

"That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."

Authority

"Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites."

Love

"Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,Will even weigh, and both as light as tales."

Trust

"If I be waspish, best beware my sting."

Life

"For all that beauty that doth cover theeIs but the seemly raiment of my heart,Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.How can I then be elder than thou art?"

Love

"There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it.What our contempts doth often hurl from us,We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,By revolution lowering, does becomeThe opposite of itself. She's good, being gone.The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on."

Love

"For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings."

Love

"The death of each days life."

Life

"BOYETA mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be.MARIAWide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out.COSTARDIndeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.BOYETAn if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in.COSTARDThen will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.MARIACome, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.COSTARDShe's too hard for you at pricks, sir: challenge her to bowl.BOYETI fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl.Exeunt BOYET and MARIA."

Life