Character Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

“Indeed, the exigencies of female tenderness are such as virtually to guarantee the man's absolution by the woman--not on her terms, but on his.…

— Sandra Lee Bartky

“A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“delicate yet strong there's a certain balance that only a woman like her can obtain she knows what she deserves ]and provided anything less…

— R.H. Sin

“In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying…

— Terry Lee Rioux

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

“A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.”

— Joseph Conrad

“[…] no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […]”

— Jane Austen

“Let her not forget that she may be a man in the superiority of her mind, in decision of character, but that externally she…

— Therese Oniell

“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division of existence.…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard…

— Laozi

“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”

— Henry David Thoreau