“Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.
It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
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“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”

“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

Muslims need critical thinking - Irshad Manji http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2004/0818verhofstadt.html August 18, 2004 (interview by Dirk Verhofstadt)

“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”
Source: The Blind Assassin

Let them be killed.
Sermon on Exodus, 1526, WA XVI, p. 551 as quoted in Luther on Women: A Sourcebook, edited by Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, (2003), p. 231

Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)