“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.”

—  Oscar Wilde

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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