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Literature
"Nature's circles are woman's cicles. Biological femaleness is a sequence of circular returns, beginning and ending at the same point. Woman's centrality gives her a sense of stability. She does not have to become but only to be. Her centrality is a great obstacle to man, whose quest for identity she blocks. He must transform himself into an independent being, that is, a being free of her. If he does not, he will simply fall back into her."
—Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
"Tears. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?"
—Cersei Lannister, A Song of Ice and Fire
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"Women are human beings, men are human doings."
—Warren Farrell
If you tell a woman to “Be a woman!” she will think, “Uh, I already am.” If you tell a man to “Be a man!” they know just what you’re talking about.
