She in beauty, education, blood,
Holds hand with any princess of the world.
William Shakespeare on Women
1564–1616 England
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Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.
We cannot fight for love, as men may do;
We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo.
To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.
Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature.
Othello (1603)
A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loath’d than an effeminate man
In time of action.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman.
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
King Lear (1608)
If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
Two women plac'd together makes cold weather.
Henry VIII (1613)
Run, run, Orlando: carve on every tree
The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
He bears an honorable mind,
And will not use a woman lawlessly.
Is there no way for men to be, but women
Must be half-workers?
Cymbeline (1611)
Ah me, how weak a thing
The heart of woman is!
Julius Cæsar (1599)
Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible;
Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.
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