Quote by Christopher Van Dyke

“Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.”

— Jane Austen

“Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will.”

— Otto Weininger

“I pity, approve, respect, admire her, but I neither desire her company, nor am greatly concerned about her destiny, and she makes me impatient…

— A.C. Bradley

“She is no one, because she lacks any trait that might render her visible: beauty, money, conformity.”

— Kate Millett

“Dress you? I'd rather undress you. We don't belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might be. I…

— Cathleen Schine

“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her better for it.”

— Jane Austen

“One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it…

— Daphne Kalotay

“...you have neither wife nor child (without any sexual feeling, she longed to cherish that loneliness)...”

— Virginia Woolf

“I understood that she was more candor & despair than woman. She had refused to be flesh & triumphed. She was freer than I.”

— Antonio Di Benedetto

“He should know no one intimately, least of all a woman.”

— E.M. Forester

“She could be the woman, the lady, who wished to be proper, who wished to please, as well as the wanton she obviously was…

— Lacy Danes

“To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things.”

— Khaled Hosseini