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"Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman."

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

"You see only the cat's paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!"

"What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years."

"To a misogynist: To err is woman."

"In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman."

"Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women."

"A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person."

"Women are binding and men are commanding."
Explore more quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern."

"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."

"At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!"

"To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh, to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door."

"He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain."

"The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity, and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity."
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