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“Lewd to the least drop in the tiniest vein, Our sex is fitly food for Tragic Poets, Our whole life's but a pile of kisses and babies. But, hardy Spartan, if you join with me All may be righted yet. O help me, help me.”
― Lysistrata
― Lysistrata
“MAGISTRATE
Don't men grow old?
LYSISTRATA
Not like women. When a man comes home
Though he's grey as grief he can always get a girl.
There's no second spring for a woman. None.
She can't recall it, nobody wants her, however
She squanders her time on the promise of oracles,
It's no use...”
― Lysistrata
Don't men grow old?
LYSISTRATA
Not like women. When a man comes home
Though he's grey as grief he can always get a girl.
There's no second spring for a woman. None.
She can't recall it, nobody wants her, however
She squanders her time on the promise of oracles,
It's no use...”
― Lysistrata
“She would speak to whom she wanted and not fantasize about mauling them. She would maintain control. It was her right.”
― The Possession of Alba Díaz
― The Possession of Alba Díaz
“Women! Theatrical bitches.”
― Victorian Psycho
― Victorian Psycho
“If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.”
― Carmilla
― Carmilla
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