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{{Quote|"Women, on the contrary, are rarely tormented with remorse; for the decision does not come from you—your misfortunes are generally imposed upon you, and your faults the results of others’ crimes."|''Ibid''}} | {{Quote|"Women, on the contrary, are rarely tormented with remorse; for the decision does not come from you—your misfortunes are generally imposed upon you, and your faults the results of others’ crimes."|''Ibid''}} | ||
{{Quote|"“Ah! I wish I had never seen you!” cried d’Artagnan, with that ingenuous roughness which women often prefer to the affectations of politeness, because it betrays the depths of the thought and proves that feeling prevails over reason."|''The Three Musketeers''}} | {{Quote|"“Ah! I wish I had never seen you!” cried d’Artagnan, with that ingenuous roughness which women often prefer to the affectations of politeness, because it betrays the depths of the thought and proves that feeling prevails over reason."|''The Three Musketeers''}} | ||
==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''<ref>http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2461/2461-h/2461-h.htm</ref>}} | {{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>}} | ||
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{{Quote|'' Oh, woman! woman! thou shouldst have few sins<br />Of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author<br />Of such a book of follies in a man,<br />That it would need the tears of all the angels<br />To blot the record out! | {{Quote|'' Oh, woman! woman! thou shouldst have few sins<br />Of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author<br />Of such a book of follies in a man,<br />That it would need the tears of all the angels<br />To blot the record out! | ||
|''ibid''}} | |''ibid''}} | ||
==1809-1865: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon== | |||
{{Quote|I said the facts reveal that which every individual of good faith glimpses and knows: That man is stronger, but less beautiful; woman more beautiful, but less vigorous. At this you laugh. You deny the | |||
facts, because, contrary to your own thesis, you imagine that I cite them with bad intent. You go so far as to say that I don’t produce facts;even more, that the facts favor you. The woman surprised in adultery always denies; her husband still has an obligation to believe her.|<ref>Proudhon, PJ & Mattessich, S (Trans.) 2018, 'Selections from Pornocracy, or Women in Modern Times', ''Cultural Critique'', vol. 100, pp. 44-64</ref><ref>''ibid'', p. 46</ref>}} | |||
{{Quote|(Woman) has naturally more of a penchant for lasciviousness than man; first because her ego is weaker, and liberty and intelligence struggle less in her against the inclinations of animality; then because love is the great, especially singular occupation of her life, and in love, the ideal always implies the physical . . .|<ref>''ibid''</ref>}} | |||
{{Quote|The more predominant beauty is in her (woman), the more she inclines to force [...] in order to tame this force, the offer of her beauty may be free or it is an act of prostitution.|<ref>''ibid'', p. 48-49.</ref>}} | |||
{{Quote|In certain epochs, sex consciousness gets mixed up; the cowardice of men becomes an auxiliary of the woman’s audacity; and we see appear these theories of enfranchisement and promiscuity, of which the last word is PORNOCRACY. At this point society is finished.|<ref>''ibid'', p. 54</ref>}} | |||
{{Quote|The lover who gives herself for nothing is a phoenix that doesn’t exist except for the poets; this is why when she gives herself outside marriage, she is a libertine, she is a prostitute; she knows this so well that if, later, she finds someone to marry, she will present herself as a widow; she will lie; to impudence she will join both hypocrisy and perfidy.|<ref>''ibid'', p. 56</ref>}} | |||
==1812-1870: Charles Dickens== | ==1812-1870: Charles Dickens== | ||
{{Quote|"A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man."|''The Mystery of Edward Drood''}} | {{Quote|"A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man."|''The Mystery of Edward Drood''}} | ||