"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."

Gender, Women, Power, Life

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"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."

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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."

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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!"

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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."

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

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"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."

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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."

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"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."

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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."

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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

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"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

Being

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."

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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."

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"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."

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"A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton..."

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"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself."

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"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."

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"You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his."

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