In general, the woman bears the small misfortunes and continued disappointments of life best, and the man bears best the great ones. Don John (1881)
A man can sometimes hold his own with one woman, but never with two. John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (1886)
[T]his is a woman-ridden age. Yet it is but fair to confess that all the former ones were man-ridden ages. What we want is a happy proportion. Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872)