The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. The Tragic Muse (1890)
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. The Ambassadors (1903)
[T]here are women who are for all your "times of life." They're the most wonderful sort. The Ambassadors (1903)
In every disadvantage that a woman suffers at the hands of a man, there is inevitably, in what concerns the man, an element of cowardice. When I say "inevitably," I mean that this is what the woman sees in it. Confidence (1879)