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==1803-1873: Edward Bulwer-Lytton== | ==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|" 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''<ref>http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2461/2461-h/2461-h.htm</ref>}} | ||
{{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|" ... 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 | {{Quote|'' Oh, woman! woman! thou shouldst have few sins | ||
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To blot the record out! | To blot the record out! | ||
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==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."}} | ||