“What a wonderful thing a woman is. I can admire what they do even if I don't understand why.”
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
“What a woman can do in frenzy.”
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 6 (tr. Fairclough)
Original
Furens quid Femina possit.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "What a woman can do in frenzy." by Virgil?
Virgil 138
Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BCRelated quotes
Source: Ways of Seeing (1972)
Context: According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome, the social presence of a woman is different in kind from that of a man... A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you... By contrast, a woman's presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her. (p. 45-46)
Jane Fonda
(1937) American actress and activist
Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=230eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OcoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3114,5294465&dq=the-institution-of-marriage-is-obsolete+fonda&hl=en
Diana Wynne Jones
(1934–2011) English children's fantasy writer
Source: Magids Series, The Merlin Conspiracy (2003), pp. 113-114.
“We do not, and never can, know the twelfth-century woman, or, for that matter, any other woman”
Henry Adams
(1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Context: Eleanor and her daughter Mary and her granddaughter Blanche knew as well as Saint Bernard did, or Saint Francis, what a brute the emancipated man could be; and as though they foresaw the society of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, they used every terror they could invent as well as every tenderness they could invoke, to tame the beasts around them. Their charge was of manners, and to teach manners, they made a school which they called their Court of Love, with a code of law to which they gave the name of "courteous love". The decisions of this Court were recorded, like the decisions of a modern Bench, under the names of the great ladies who made them, and were enforced by the ladies of good society for whose guidance they were made. They are worth reading, and anyone who likes may read them to this day, with considerable scepticism about their genuineness. The doubt is only ignorance. We do not, and never can, know the twelfth-century woman, or, for that matter, any other woman, but we do know the literature she created; we know the art she lived in, and the religion she professed. We can collect from them some idea why the Virgin Mary ruled, and what she was taken to be, by the world which worshipped her.
“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”
Source: The Woman in White
Napoleon I of France
(1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)