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their weakness. For there has never been a case of men and women
reigning together, but wherever on the earth men are found, there we see
that men rule, and women are ruled, and that on this plan, both sexes live
in harmony. But on the other hand, the Amazons, who are reported to have
held rule of old, did not suffer men to stop in their country, but reared only
their female children, killing the males to whom they gave birth. But if by
nature women were equal to men, and were equally distinguished by force
of character and ability, in which human power and therefore human right
chiefly consist; surely among nations so many and different some would be
found, where both sexes rule alike, and others, where men are ruled by
women, and so brought up, that they can make less use of their abilities.
And since this is nowhere the case, one may assert with perfect propriety,
that women have not by nature equal right with men: but that they
necessarily give way to men, and that thus it cannot happen, that both sexes
should rule alike, much less that men should be ruled by women.
- from Tractatus Politicus by Baruch Spinoza
- Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;
But every woman is at heart a rake.
- Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years
old.
- Girls we love for what they are: Young men for what they promise to
be.
- It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but
one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
reigning together, but wherever on the earth men are found, there we see
that men rule, and women are ruled, and that on this plan, both sexes live
in harmony. But on the other hand, the Amazons, who are reported to have
held rule of old, did not suffer men to stop in their country, but reared only
their female children, killing the males to whom they gave birth. But if by
nature women were equal to men, and were equally distinguished by force
of character and ability, in which human power and therefore human right
chiefly consist; surely among nations so many and different some would be
found, where both sexes rule alike, and others, where men are ruled by
women, and so brought up, that they can make less use of their abilities.
And since this is nowhere the case, one may assert with perfect propriety,
that women have not by nature equal right with men: but that they
necessarily give way to men, and that thus it cannot happen, that both sexes
should rule alike, much less that men should be ruled by women.
- from Tractatus Politicus by Baruch Spinoza
- Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;
But every woman is at heart a rake.
- Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years
old.
- Girls we love for what they are: Young men for what they promise to
be.
- It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but
one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
| All it is unwise to know about her Copyright © 1991-95 Kevin Solway |
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| No woman ever found a rich man ugly. |
| Woman's first duty is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered. |
| There are few women whose worth lasts longer than their beauty. |
| It takes two to make a woman into a sex object. |
| Little girls are won with dolls; big girls with dollars. |
| I will not say that women have no character, rather, they have a new one every day. |
| "Remember, men, we're fighting for this woman's honour; which is probably more than she ever did." |