Quotes about Clichés

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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine cr — Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The gre — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certain — John Gower, Confessio Amantis
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sak — Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successf — Christine de Pizan, Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine, and often — Anonymous, Dives And Pauper
[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such t — Augustine of Hippo, Sermons 1-19
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a p — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of v — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person l — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger — Christine de Pizan, Le Débat Sur Le Roman De La Rose
Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines, you have t — Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet
What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, that we keep them amuse — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their colour, their breat — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
People are fond of spouting out the old cliché about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his exa — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know how they — Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill — Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover: A Romance