“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.”
Source: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader
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American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and … 1860–1935Related quotes
“Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 281.
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
“If a good woman is killed, a man is to blame.”
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 241
“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”
The virtuous is frank and open; the non-virtuous is secretive and worrying. [by 朱冀平]
Source: The Analects, Other chapters
“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“You both should feel honored.”
“Right, very honored,” I said. “Always wanted to be possessed!”
Source: The Red Pyramid
“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”
Variant: I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best
“I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.”
Source: Double Indemnity