“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Dagonet Ballads. Moll Jarvis o’ Morley.
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 20 (p. 121)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Letter to Susan B. Anthony (1860-06-14).
Context: Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.
“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
George Meredith book The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 1.