- Buddha, Vinaya-Pitaka

- Countless are woman's defects.

My elephantine mind has fallen

Into the poisonous swamp of guile.

So I must renounce the world.

- Naropa, Tibetan mystic poet

- Some say that learning seems not to be the business of women. I say
that . . . control of the mind is of the utmost importance to women, and
it would be a great mistake to say that it is not their business. The
outward manner and temper of women is rooted in the negative (yin)
power, and so temperamentally women are apt to be sensitive, petty,
narrow, and jaundiced. Confinement results in limited vision.
Consequently, among women compassion and honesty are rare indeed. That
is why Buddhism says that women are particularly sinful and have the
greatest difficulty in attaining Buddhahood. Thus women are in special
need of mental discipline.

- Toju, Zen Master

A woman is a valley, a man is a peak; a man enters the woman, the woman
simply allows; a man is an aggression, a woman is a receptivity; a man
tries to do, a woman simply waits for things to happen ... Look at a
woman. She is balanced. Her needs are small: somebody to love, somebody
to be loved by, food, shelter, a little warmth around, a home -
finished. And she is not worried about anything: no woman has created
any science; no woman has founded any religion.

- A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but
a corrupt woman is lost forever.

- The one thing that man never gives to a woman is spiritual help.

- The souls of women are so small, that some believe they've none at
all.

- Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer than in