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{{Quote|"The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason."}} | {{Quote|"The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason."}} | ||
{{Quote|"All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense"}} | {{Quote|"All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense"}} | ||
==1724–1804: Immanuel Kant== | |||
{{Quote|"Women are more inclined to be miserly than men. This is in keeping with the nature of woman, for the women have to be more sparing since they are spending money which they do not earn themselves."}} | |||
{{Quote|"Woman has a superior feeling for the beautiful, so far as it pertains to herself".}} | |||
==1652-1685: Thomas Otway== | ==1652-1685: Thomas Otway== | ||
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And ne're distrust the poyson that it hides ...|''ibid''}} | And ne're distrust the poyson that it hides ...|''ibid''}} | ||
== | ==1688-1744: Alexander Pope== | ||
{{Quote|"Women | {{Quote|"NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, Most women have no characters at all."|''Moral Essays: EPISTLE II, of The Characters of Women''<ref>https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004780226.0001.000/1:4?rgn=div1;view=fulltext</ref>}} | ||
{{Quote|" | {{Quote|"See sin in state, majestically drunk; | ||
Proud as a peeress, prouder as a punk; | |||
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, | |||
A teeming mistress, but a barren bride."|''ibid''}} | |||
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"Who breaks with her (woman), provokes revenge from hell, | |||
But he's a bolder man who dares be well. | |||
Her ev'ry turn with violence pursu'd, | |||
Nor more a storm her hate than gratitude ... | |||
Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; | |||
Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live ..."|''ibid''}} | |||
{{Quote|"Men, some to bus'ness, some to pleasure take; | |||
But ev'ry woman is at heart a rake ..."|''ibid''}} | |||