Timeless quotes on women: Difference between revisions

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|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==

{{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''}}