Women Defined in Literature

Women Defined in Literature

"The minds of women are as changeable as the drop of dew which rest upon the lotus leaf"

Bhartrihari, Niti Sataka (c. AD 625). In The Sringe Sataka

"A woman talks to one man, looks at a second, and thinks of a third."

"A woman's mind and winter-wind change oft."

John Clarke, Paroemiologia, p. 159 (1639)

"Tho' women's minds like winter winds,

May shift and turn and a' that"

Robert Burns, Women's Minds (1796)

"To change the mind is a lady's privilege"

Stanley Weyman, Starvecrow Farm, ch. 22 (1905).

"Ladies have leave to change their minds."

"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's-she changes it oftener"

Oliver Herford, Epigram (c. 1925)

"It's a woman prerogative to change her mind"

"Never ever ever, under any circumstances financially obligate yourself (marriage) to an entity that will profit from exercising her natural born prerogative to change her mind."

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