Companion Quote by Anonymous

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were…

— Helen Andelin

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.

— Suzanne Curchod

... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back…

— Anna Julia Cooper

“...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.”

— Eve Babitz

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the…

— Philip Sidney

What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe…

— Naomi Wolf

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

— Shulamith Firestone

We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should…

— Francis Schaeffer

The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on…

— Merle Shain

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft