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The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice suffices to cool of — Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir or, The Immoral Mentors
A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leade — Abhijit Naskar
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be — Jane Austen, Persuasion
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. — Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howl — 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
No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of — Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to — Antonia Fraser, The Wives of Henry VIII
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
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and in — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subjec — Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men