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{{Quote|"To love is an active verb, and woman is a passive noun. He loves—she is loved."}} | {{Quote|"To love is an active verb, and woman is a passive noun. He loves—she is loved."}} | ||
{{Quote|"Women amount to nothing by themselves but mean everything to us, and are everything for us. They are our honor and our shame; our greatest joy, and our deepest pain and distress; our redemption and our fall; our reward and our punishment; our strength and our weakness."}} | {{Quote|"Women amount to nothing by themselves but mean everything to us, and are everything for us. They are our honor and our shame; our greatest joy, and our deepest pain and distress; our redemption and our fall; our reward and our punishment; our strength and our weakness."}} | ||
==1856-1939: Sigmund Freud== | |||
{{Quote|"Women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own."}} | |||
{{Quote|"Girls hold their mother responsible for their lack of a penis and do not forgive her for their being thus put at a disadvantage."}} | |||
{{Quote|(When asked why he had no explanations for female mental development by a woman):"Well it's clear to me that you all are the problem."}} | |||
{{Quote|"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?"}} | |||
==1856–1950: George Bernard Shaw== | ==1856–1950: George Bernard Shaw== | ||
{{Quote|"You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool | {{Quote|"You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool | ||