“To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.”

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Context: All great literary men are shy. I am myself, though I am told it is hardly noticeable. I am glad it is not. It used to be extremely prominent at one time, and was the cause of much misery to myself and discomfort to every one about me—my lady friends especially complained most bitterly about it. A shy man's lot is not a happy one. The men dislike him, the women despise him, and he dislikes and despises himself. Use brings him no relief, and there is no cure for him except time.

1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)

Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

1964, p. 141; Chapter 1; Chapter 1: The Origin of Speech
Speech, 1930

Source: Hunting Ground

The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 36

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 79.

Susan Cheever, "A Designated Crazy," The New York Times Book Review, June 20, 1993. (Reviewing Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted.)
On Girl, Interrupted