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May 15, 2011 by kevinstilley

Women – select quotes

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God cursed the snake, but it finds sustenance everywhere.  God cursed the woman, but all men pursue her.
~ Talmud, Yoma, 75

Adams owed more to the American woman than to all the American men he ever heard of, and felt not the smallest call to defend his sex who seemed able to take care of themselves; but from the point of view of sex he felt much curiosity to know how far the woman was right, and, in pursuing this inquiry, he caught the trick of affirming that the woman was the superior.  Apart from truth, he owed her at least that compliment.
~ Henry Adams in The Education of Henry Adams, chapter 30

Woman is the chain by which man is attached to the chariot of folly.
~ Bharitihari, in The Sringa Satak

Nothing enchants the soul so much as young women. They alone are the cause of evil and there is no other.
~ Bharitihari, in The Sringa Satak

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
~ Marcus Porcius Cato

Thank heaven for little girls, for little girls get bigger every day!… They grow up in the most delightful way!
~ Maurice Chevalier

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