When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
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Little Women
by
Louisa May Alcott
To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving."
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Much Ado About Nothing
by
William Shakespeare
"O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place."
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Much Ado About Nothing
by
William Shakespeare
"That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me."
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Much Ado About Nothing
by
William Shakespeare