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> [ “who are incapable of understanding a woman’s character, heart, and soul. Yeats insists that men need “protection & care in those deeper things where \[a woman is strong\].” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/who-are-incapable-of-understanding-a-woman-s-character-heart-and-soul/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

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## More by Olivia Shakespear

> [“Do you seriously think I’m coming to your dance?” I went on. “Why, I haven’t got a dress, or a face fit to show…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/do-you-seriously-think-i-m-coming-to-your-dance-i-went-on-why-i-haven/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

> [“who are incapable of understanding a woman’s character, heart, and soul. Yeats insists that men need “protection & care in those deeper things where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/who-are-incapable-of-understanding-a-woman-s-character-heart-and-soul/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

> [“Like Jonathan Swift, Yeats was always a great renamer of his women, giving them mythical aliases or the names of Sir Walter Scott’s heroines,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/like-jonathan-swift-yeats-was-always-a-great-renamer-of-his-women/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

> [“Though Shakespear remained anonymous as “Diana Vernon” in The Man and the Masks,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/though-shakespear-remained-anonymous-as-diana-vernon-in-the-man-and/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

> [“I had passed through many deaths since that night when she had been born in all her beauty; for is not “every step we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/i-had-passed-through-many-deaths-since-that-night-when-she-had-been/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

> [“A woman must be good,” he said reflectively. “Only a plain woman,” said I. “Who has been behaving ill now?” “I was generalizing; or,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/a-woman-must-be-good-he-said-reflectively-only-a-plain-woman-said-i/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

> [“Yet again, the heroine of the novel is a lovely young woman thwarted in her creative capacities by marriage to an old man; yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/yet-again-the-heroine-of-the-novel-is-a-lovely-young-woman-thwarted/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

> [“My father had taken me, as a young girl, to balls. I had sat out unnoticed, but observant; and it had seemed to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/my-father-had-taken-me-as-a-young-girl-to-balls-i-had-sat-out/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

> [“The plot of Love on a Mortal Lease is not unlike those Shakespear would use later, nor unlike those of commonplace Victorian works. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/the-plot-of-love-on-a-mortal-lease-is-not-unlike-those-shakespear/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

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