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  • I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

  • My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.

    Daughter   Liars   Men  
  • Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

  • The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

  • There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

  • All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

    Women   Eye   Heart  
    Jeremy Taylor (1849). “The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ: The Saviour of the World”, p.67
  • Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

  • The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

  • Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

    Men   May   Fool  
    Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.836
  • There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

    Women   Jewels   World  
    Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.100
  • The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

    Art   Ymca   World  
    Prejudices, First Series ch. 16 (1919)
  • Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!

    James Sheridan Knowles (1859). “The Dramatic Works of James Sheridan Knowles: The love chase. Woman's wit. The maid of Mariendorpt. Love. John of Procida. Old maids. The rose of Arragon. The secretary”, p.255
  • The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

    Wall   Distance   Flower  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1842). “Don Quixote”, p.165
  • Sarah lied about me. I never made the offer which she said I did. I will not advise you to break up your family - unless it were asked of me. Then I would council you to get a bill from your wife and marry a virtuous woman - and a new family but if you do not do it I shall never throw it in your teeth.

    Wife   Teeth   New Family  
  • May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

    Animal   Abnormal   May  
    Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.38, Petrarca Press
  • Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

  • Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

    Lyndon W. Cook, William Law (1994). “William Law”, Grandin Book Co
  • Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

    Support   Vices   Insult  
  • Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.

    Daughter   Sex   Husband  
    Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.268
  • The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

  • The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.

    Art   Book   Reading  
    H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd
  • There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

  • No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.

    Song: I Wanna Be Loved, Album: 'Til Shiloh, 1995
  • Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

    "Sex Discrimination in the Workplace, 1981". Hearings Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Volume 4, 1981.
  • All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

  • Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

    "R.I.P. Phyllis Schlafly, conservative activist and outspoken anti-feminist" by Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. September 06, 2016.
  • I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.

    Children   Animal   Men  
  • There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

    In The Arena.
  • The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

    "The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou".
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