It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?