Calamity Quote by Saint John Chrysostom

Women are necessary evils.

— Proverb

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.

— Saint John Chrysostom

This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best…

— Annie Besant

A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she…

— Albertus Magnus

Woman is the root of all evil.

— St. Jerome

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

— Gustave Flaubert

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

— St. Jerome

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

— Samuel Smiles

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion…

— William Faulkner