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    It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the
    cock is silent.
    [Fr., C'est chose qui moult me deplaist,
    Quand poule parle et coq se taist.]

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When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has read more

When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

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Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
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Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
What an inviting hell invented.

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Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms

Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms

by De Finod Found in: Women Quotes,
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I think Nature hath lost the mould
Where she her shape did take;
Or else I doubt read more

I think Nature hath lost the mould
Where she her shape did take;
Or else I doubt if Nature could
So fair a creature make.

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Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the
shell of a tortoise, to signify read more

Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the
shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous
woman, which are to keep home and be silent.

by William De Britaine Found in: Women Quotes,
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Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions

by Jules Michelet Found in: Women Quotes,
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You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib;
she was really made from read more

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib;
she was really made from his funny bone.

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Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
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Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their
rudeness,
Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.

by Amos Bronson Alcott Found in: Women Quotes,
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Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

by Desiderius Erasmus Found in: Women Quotes,
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