"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"

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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

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Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic."

Roy Blount, Jr., American Writer

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"I think women are too valuable to be in combat."

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