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"There, Hindus and Sikhs were simply waylaid and killed or their houses attacked and their property and womenfolk carried away."

"If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him."

"A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far."

") Online text of The New Womanhood"

"The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman."

"England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes."

"I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women."

"When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble."

"Women are not to be hit. They're to be hugged and caressed."

"Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman."

"All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be."

"She is a woman now, and not an idle girl, not a domestic ornament or a sexual convenience anymore."

"Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse."

"Frances Wright, Woman's Advocate"

"Even, under such circumstances, a commoner of England, tried before a jury of Lords, would have far less cause to complain than should I, a woman, tried before a jury of men."

"Women are horrible. I mean, quite as horrible as men. Oh, is there anyone in the wide world that has aught but ice water in his or her veins?"

"She’d been a different girl then. He’d been a different man. She missed both of them."

"He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself."

"Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed."

"Most women would like to dress imaginatively, but they glare at any woman who does."