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{{Quote|"[the idea that] women are, and have been in the past, grievously oppressed by men, is, on one side of it wholly false, and on the other true only to a very limited extent ... Now, as a matter of fact, at no period of the world’s history has the female sex constituted a disinherited or oppressed class. Women may have been liable to certain disabilities. But these have been always compensated and often more than compensated by exemptions and special privileges. Economically, although dependent on men, women have for the most part had the “lion’s share at the banquet of life.”|''ibid''}} | {{Quote|"[the idea that] women are, and have been in the past, grievously oppressed by men, is, on one side of it wholly false, and on the other true only to a very limited extent ... Now, as a matter of fact, at no period of the world’s history has the female sex constituted a disinherited or oppressed class. Women may have been liable to certain disabilities. But these have been always compensated and often more than compensated by exemptions and special privileges. Economically, although dependent on men, women have for the most part had the “lion’s share at the banquet of life.”|''ibid''}} | ||
{{Quote|"As a friend intimately acquainted with current political life recently observed to me, what these people want to get the suffrage for is not to further any broad social views whatever, but simply to get infamous laws passed against men as men. This I believe to be true. What they really want is the erection of a sex domination.|''ibid''}} | {{Quote|"As a friend intimately acquainted with current political life recently observed to me, what these people want to get the suffrage for is not to further any broad social views whatever, but simply to get infamous laws passed against men as men. This I believe to be true. What they really want is the erection of a sex domination.|''ibid''}} | ||
==1854-1900: Oscar Wilde== | |||
{{Quote|"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."}} | |||
{{Quote|"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."}} | |||
{{Quote|"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”}} | |||
{{Quote|"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."}} | |||
{{Quote|"Men always want to be a woman's first love—women like to be a man's last romance.}} | |||
{{Quote|"Every woman is a rebel."}} | |||
{{Quote|"A man’s love is like that. It is wider, larger, more human than a woman’s. Women think that they | |||
are making ideals of men. What they are making of us are false idols merely. You made your false idol of me, and I had not the courage to | |||
come down, show you my wounds, tell you my weaknesses. I was afraid that I might lose your love, as I have lost it now."|''The Ideal Husband''}} | |||
{{Quote|"The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain."|''The Importance of Being Earnest''}} | |||
{{Quote|"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."|''The Portrait of Dorian Grey''}} | |||
{{Quote|"My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."|''ibid''}} | |||
==1856-1939: Sigmund Freud== | ==1856-1939: Sigmund Freud== | ||