“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”
Source: The Disorderly Knights
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As quoted in Vivekananda : The Yogas and Other Works (1953), p. 173; also at "The Story Of Swami Vivekananda: Mission Impossible" at MyLifeYoga (10 December 2011) http://mylifeyoga.com/2011/12/10/the-story-of-swami-vivekananda-mission-impossibl/
Context: After so much austerity I have known that the highest truth is this: He is present in every being! These are all in manifold forms of him. There is no other God to seek for! He alone is worshipping God, who serves all beings!

Source: As quoted in Vivekananda : The Yogas and Other Works (1953), p. 173; also at "The Story Of Swami Vivekananda: Mission Impossible" at MyLifeYoga (10 December 2011) http://mylifeyoga.com/2011/12/10/the-story-of-swami-vivekananda-mission-impossibl/
“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
Source: The Woman in White

Essays on Woman (1996), Fundamental Principles of Women's Education (1931)

“Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain,
Inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies.”
" Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain http://www.bartleby.com/126/10.html", st. 1
Poems (1817)

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.”
On the Tranquillity of the Mind
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)