Quote by Gregory Maguire

“Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?”

— V.S. Carnes

“Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought more wicked than they are.”

— Daniel Defoe

“There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.”

— Françoise Sagan

“Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did.”

— Edith Wharton

“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.”

— John Fowles

“She saw now that he was like an illusionist who captivated women with a little sleight of hand and once she had seen the…

— Anna Godbersen

“..She had started to understand how a woman's attention could succeed in making sense of a man's blind chaos..”

— Louise Erdrich

“Just… be careful.’ I stared at her, baffled. 'Of what?’ 'Of powerful men.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“He said, men are vile. I said, the vilest thing about them is that they can say that with a smile on their faces.”

— John Fowles

“The wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror that men will not speak against it. That men have just…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The only real power that you have as a woman lies in the attention you get.”

— Lebo Grand

“If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their…

— Jayne Bauling