At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be, — inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.

Very thin ladies, any age, with hand sewing on them, have always frightened me, beginning with a rich great-aunt and her underwear embroidered by nuns. The more bones that show on women the more inferior I feel.

He (The warden) was painfully afraid of a disagreement with any person in any subject....he felt horror at the thought of being made the subject of common gossip and public criticism.

When things began to go badly wrong between me and Alice, I had a terrible fear that getting attached to an upper-class girl like her was part of a childhood resentment, connected to my feelings about my mother, to bring down women, and that deep inside I was thinking, “Here’s an Ormsby-Gore, and I’m going to make her suffer.

Women! He thought, who could ever figure them out? No matter what a man said, he was always in the wrong. There was no logic in them.

How can you be afraid of women?”
“Those ain’t normal women.

Angry women are always the villains.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

ليس بإمكان رجل أن يهوى امرأة قد تولِّد لديه نحوها شعور بالإستصغار. ليس بإمكانه أن يحبها اذا ما كان عقله يخجل منها.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry

Then, too, he had a sort of prejudice against the way in which Florimel spent her time in seducing and murdering young men.

Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own.

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.