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Leo Tolstoy on Women

1828–1910 Russia

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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

What Is To Be Done? (1886)

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait [The establishing of a fact.]

Anna Karenina (1875)

When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.

What Men Live By (1881)

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.