Adam Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Probably the prevailing opinion, that woman was created for man, may have taken its rise from Moses's poetical story; yet, as very few it…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Woman thus emerged as the inessential who never returned to the essential, as the absolute Other, without reciprocity. All the creation myths express this…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Men are always the last to ken what women know by sniffing the air. That's why God gave bodily might to Adam, to balance…

— Kathleen Kent

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman…

— Carol Gilligan

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;…

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis…

— Martin Luther

The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely…

— Glen Duncan

Woman is the root of all evil.

— St. Jerome

“For man was created of the dust of the earth, but woman was made of a part of man, after that he was a…

— Rachel Speght

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the…

— Helen Rowland

Do you realise that Eve was the only woman who ever took a man's side?

— Milton Berle

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for…

— Hugh Nibley