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Elizabeth Montagu

"Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants."

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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."

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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."

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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."

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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."

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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

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"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."

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"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."

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"The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse."

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Elizabeth Montagu
"Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants."

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Elizabeth Montagu
"I never invite idiots to my house."

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Elizabeth Montagu
"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress."

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Elizabeth Montagu
"She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it."

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Elizabeth Montagu
"To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another."

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