“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”
Source: Emma
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English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes

“What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.”

The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate

As quoted in Dame Edith Evans, ch. 13, by Bryan Forbes (1977)

Apr 2014. As quoted/attributed in : Another SP leader’s rape remark sparks outrage https://web.archive.org/web/20140618193004/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/another-sp-leaders-rape-remark-sparks-outrage/article5902266.ece

As quoted by John Knox The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/firblast.htm (1558)
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“I don't think a man should EVER hit a woman….. until the 5th time she cracks him in the face.”
Norman Rockwell is Bleeding (2004)

“Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him”