"I saw fair Chloris walk alone, When feather'd rain came softly down, As Jove descending from his Tower To court her in a silver shower: The wanton snow flew to her breast, Like pretty birds into their nest, But, overcome with whiteness there, For grief it thaw'd into a tear: Thence falling on her garments' hem, To deck her, froze into a gem."

""To love" is an active verb, and "woman" is a passive noun. He loves—she is loved; he interrogates—she merely answers!"

"Perhaps some sort of larva, or pupa, out of whose somnambulist life a man will be created. She is like a child, yet is not one; she is a sort of child, but is not like one. When the man pulls upward, she drags downward; when the man drags downward, she pulls upward!"

"Nothing in themselves; but everything for us, through us! Our honour and our shame; our greatest joy, our deepest pain; our redemption and our fall; our wages and our punishment; our strength and our weakness."

"The beginning and the end—for us men anyhow. In relationship to one another they are nothing."

"Every healthy man is a woman-hater—yet he cannot survive if he does not ally himself with his enemy and bring about strife. All deviates and effeminate perverts among men have an adoration for women!"

"In woman I sought an angel, who could lend me wings, and I fell into the arms of an earth-spirit, who suffocated me under mattresses stuffed with the feathers of wings! I sought an Ariel and I found a Caliban; when I wanted to rise she dragged me down; and continually reminded me of the fall...."

"Where a woman has loved most, there she will soonest avenge herself."

"She is no worthy woman who forsakes her honour for her body, or her body for her honour."

"Men can be great when great occasions call: In little duties women find their spheres, The narrow cares that cluster round the hearth."

"The weaker sex, to piety more prone."

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke; that's their natural and first weapon. She will need sisterhood."

"Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous."

"He beheld his own rougher make softened into sweetness, and tempered with smiles; he saw a creature who had, as it were, Heaven's second thought in her formation."

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."

"The craft is only one path among the many opening up for women, and many of us will blaze new trails as we explore the uncharted country of our own interiors. The heritage, the culture, the knowledge of the ancient priestesses, healers, poets, singers, and seers were nearly lost, but a seed survived the flames that will blossom in a new age into thousands of flowers. The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts."

"Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal."

"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. ... He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. ... Having deprived her of this first right as a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead."

"What wilt not woman, gentle woman, dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?"

"Νῦν δ' οὐδέν εἰμι χωρίς."

"Γύναι, γυναιξὶ κόσμον ἡ σιγὴ φέρει."

"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys."

"Ha belle blonde Au cors si gent Perle du monde Que j'aime tant!"

"If we are to use the women for the same things as the men, we must also teach them the same things."

"This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind."

"How few women have any history after the age of thirty!"

"By saynt Mary, my lady, Your mammy and your dady Brought forth a godely babi!"

"Far may be sought Erst that ye can fynde So corteise, so kynde As mirry Margarete, This midsomer flowre, Jentyll as fawcoun Or hawke of the towre."

"With solace and gladnes, Moche mirthe and no madnes, All good and no badnes, So joyously, So maydenly, So womanly Her demenying In every thynge."

"She is the vyolet, The daysy delectable, The columbine commendable, The jelofer amyable; For this most goodly floure, This blossom of fressh colour, So Jupiter me succour, She florysheth new and new In beaute and vertew."

"Lor', but women's rum cattle to deal with, the first man found that to his cost, And I reckon it's just through a woman the last man on earth'll be lost."

"She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent’s dream."

"She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood."

"Woman was formed to admire, man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noon-day; hers the softened splendour of the midnight moon."

"It is against womanhood, to be forward in their own wishes."

"A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking. She shall not need to procure attention, for their own eyes will chain their ears unto it. Men venture lives to conquer; she conquers lives without venturing."

"She is not worthy to be loved, that hath not some feeling of her own worthiness."

"All the cost bestowed did not so much enrich, nor all the fine decking so much beautify, nor all the dainty devices so much delight, as the fairness of Parthenia, the pearl of all the maids of Mantinea, who, as she went to the temple to be married, her eyes themselves seemed a temple wherein love and beauty were married."

"Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty."

"She is herself of best things the collection."

"Mobilior ventis o femina!"

"Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here's to the widow of fifty Here's to the flaunting, extravagant queen; And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Let the toast pass— Drink to the lass— I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass!"

"One moral's plain, * * * without more fuss; Man's social happiness all rests on us: Through all the drama—whether damn'd! or not— Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot."