- Jonathan Swift, "A letter to a young lady on her marriage"
- The undoubted superiority of the male sex in intellectual and creative
achievement is related to their greater endowment of aggression. . . .
Even when women have been given the opportunity to cultivate the arts
and sciences, remarkably few have produced original works of outstanding
quality.
- Women never reason, and therefore are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
- But there's wisdom in women
of more than they have known,
And thoughts go blowing through
them, are wiser than their own.
- The sagacity of women, like the sagacity of saints, or that of
donkeys, is something outside all questions of ordinary cleverness and
ambition.
- What do you mean by a woman's better nature? I did not know that a
woman had more than one nature, and that is . . . nature.
- Woman is considered wise when she apes the behaviour of man.
- Women are only children of a larger growth; they have an entertaining
tattle, and sometimes wit, but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never
in my life knew one that had it.
- Women get dumber as they grow smarter.
- It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of
rapid perception, and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked
than man; but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of
the lower races, and therefore of a past and lower state of
civilization. - Charles Darwin
- Revenge is always the delight of a little weak and petty mind;