Timeless quotes on women: Difference between revisions

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inclinations."|''Don Quixote''}}
inclinations."|''Don Quixote''}}
==1564-1616: William Shakespeare==
==1564-1616: William Shakespeare==
{{Quote|"Frailty, the name is WOMAN! |''Hamlet'' Act I, sc. 2.}}
{{Quote|"Frailty, thy name is WOMAN! |''Hamlet'' Act I, sc. 2.}}
{{Quote|"Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
{{Quote|"Such duty as the subject owes the prince,


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Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Out of my sight!"| (''Othello'', 4.1.2685) <ref>https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=othello&Act=4&Scene=1&Scope=scene/poem_view.php?WorkID=passionatepilgrim</ref>}}
Out of my sight!"| (''Othello'', 4.1.2685) <ref>https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=othello&Act=4&Scene=1&Scope=scene/poem_view.php?WorkID=passionatepilgrim</ref>}}
==1588-1679: Thomas Hobbes==
==1588-1679: Thomas Hobbes==
{{Quote|"Forme ([[beauty|looks]]) is Power; because being a promise of Good, it recommendeth men to the favour of women and strangers."|''Leviathan''}}
{{Quote|"Forme ([[beauty|looks]]) is Power; because being a promise of Good, it recommendeth men to the favour of women and strangers."|''Leviathan''}}

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