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"When a girl goes bad, men go right after her."
Mae West
"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from."
Mae West
"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men"
Simone de Beauvoir
"An unalterable and unquestioned law of the feminine universe runs through all history, whispering inexorably in the ears of women: "Thou shalt be attractive."
Edith Wharton
"No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility"
Simone de Beauvoir
"The homemaker has the ultimate career."
C. S. Lewis
"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on"
H. L. Mencken
"In the duel of sex, woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."
H. L. Mencken
"Beauty, n: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband"
Ambrose Bierce
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