Woman endeavours to breed her daughter a fine lady, qualifying her for a station in which she will never appear, and at the same time incapacitating her for that retirement to which she is destined. Lady Montagu.
Woman, in accordance with her unbroken, clear-seeing nature, loses herself, and what she has of heart and happiness, in the object she loves. Jean Paul.
Woman is at once the delight and the terror of man. Amiel.
Woman is like the reed which bends to every 35 breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. Whately.
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends. Goethe.
Woman is not undevelopt man, / But diverse; could we make her as the man, / Sweet love were slain: his dearest bond is this / Not like to like, but like in difference. Tennyson.
Woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. Bulwer Lytton.
Woman is the blood-royal of life; let there be slight degrees of precedency among them, but let them be all sacred. Burns.
Woman is the lesser man. Tennyson. 40
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. Amiel.