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“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“1. Men are easy to please but are not pleased for long before some new novelty must delight them.

2. Men are easy to make passionate but are unable to sustain it.

3. Men are always seeking soft women but find their lives in ruins without strong women.

4. Men must be occupied at all times otherwise they make mischief.

5. Men deem themselves weighty and women light. Therefore it is simple to tie a stone round their necks and drown them should they become too troublesome.

6. Men are best left in groups by themselves where they will entirely wear themselves out in drunkenness and competition. While this is taking place a woman may carry on with her own life unhindered.

7. Men are never never to be trusted with what is closest to your heart, and if it is they who are closest to your heart, do not tell them.

8. If a man asks you for money, do not give it to him.

9. If you ask a man for money and he does not give it to you, sell his richest possession and leave at once.

10. Your greatest strength is that every man believes he knows the sum and possibility of every woman.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“A golden cage is still a cage.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

“You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”

“I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe