„To men a man is but a mind. Who caresWhat face he carries or what form he wears?But woman’s body is the woman. O,Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go,But heed the warning words the sage hath said:A woman absent is a woman dead.“

— Ambrose Bierce

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„You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman…'You never can tell…' he answered.'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!“
— Mikhail Bulgakov
„Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.“
— Diana Gabaldon
„If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„the only man woman or child who wrotea simple declarative sentence with seven grammaticalerrors “is dead”beautiful Warren Gamaliel Harding“is” deadhe's“dead”“
— E.E. Cummings
„For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.“
— Colette
„I thought you could write something about me that men can't – What I want written – I do not know – I have no definite idea of what it should be. – but a woman who has lived many things and who sees lines and colors as an expression of living – might say something that a man can't – I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore – Men have done all they can do about it. Does that mean anything to you – or doesn't it?“
— Georgia O'Keeffe