"Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn."

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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

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"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"Silence is an ornament for women."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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Queen Marie of Romania, British Royalty

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"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

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"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart."

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"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."

People

"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."

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"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."

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"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."

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"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."

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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."

"Silence is an ornament for women."

"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."

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"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart."

"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."

"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."

"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."

"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."

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"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man."

"Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better."

"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune."