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{{Quote|"Because women in truth exist entirely for the propagation of the race, and their destiny ends here, they live more for the species than for the individual, and in their hearts take the affairs of the species more seriously than those of the individual."}} | {{Quote|"Because women in truth exist entirely for the propagation of the race, and their destiny ends here, they live more for the species than for the individual, and in their hearts take the affairs of the species more seriously than those of the individual."}} | ||
==1803-1873: Edward Bulwer-Lytton== | |||
{{Quote|" You women regard men just as you buy books—you never care about what is in them, but how they are bound and lettered."|''The Lady of Lyons''}} | |||
{{Quote|" ... they may talk of the devotion of the sex [women], but the most faithful attachment in life is a woman in love—with herself"|''ibid''}} | |||
{{Quote|'' Oh, woman! woman! thou shouldst have few sins | |||
Of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author | |||
Of such a book of follies in a man, | |||
That it would need the tears of all the angels | |||
To blot the record out! | |||
|''ibid''}} | |||
==1813–1855: Søren Kierkegaard== | ==1813–1855: Søren Kierkegaard== | ||
{{Quote|"For my part, if I were a woman, I had rather be a woman in the orient where I would be a slave, for to be a slave, neither more nor less, is at any rate something definite, in comparison with being . . . nothing whatever."}} | {{Quote|"For my part, if I were a woman, I had rather be a woman in the orient where I would be a slave, for to be a slave, neither more nor less, is at any rate something definite, in comparison with being . . . nothing whatever."}} | ||