"Angry" Quotes

These are some of our favorite quotes from Jane Anger's text, Her Protection for Women . Please read over them and see what she has to say about how women were treated in her time.

"And therefore God may see how thankfully they recieve his liberality, (Their wits whetted, and their brains almost broken with botching his bounty) they fall straight to dispraising and slandering our silly sex."

"We are contrary to men, because they are contrary to that which is good; because they are (purblind, they cannot see into our natures, and we too well though we had but half an eye) into their conditions, because they are so bad; our behaviors alter daily, because men's virtues decay hourly."

"Then lacking a help for him, GOD making woman of man's flesh, that she might be purer than he, does evidently show how far we women are more excellent than men."

"There is a continual deadly hatred between the wild boar and tame hounds; I would there were the like between women and men unless they amend their manners, for so strength should predominate where now flattery and dissimulation hath the upper hand."

"It is a wonder to see how men can flatter themselves with their own conceits. For let us look, they will swear that we love, and if then Lust pricketh them, they will swear that Love stingeth us."

"Then Mischief, he pries into every corner of us, seeing if he can espy a cranny, that getting in his finger into it, he make make it wide enough for his tongue to wag in."

"nulla fides hominibus" (place no trust in men)

"Their fawning is but flattery; their faith, falsehood; their fair words, allurements to destruction; and their large promises, tokens of death or of evils worse than death. Their singing is a bait to catch us; and their playings, plagues to torment us...There are three accidents to men, which of all are most inseparable: Lust, Deceit, and malice."

"...if a woman trust unto a man, it shall fare as well with her as if she had a weight of a thousand pounds tied about her neck and then cast into the bottomless seas."

"Our behaviors alter daily, because men's virtues decay hourly."

"We are contrary to men because they are contrary to that which is good."

"And therefore, think well of as many as you may, love them that you have cause, hear everything that they say (and afford them nods which make themselves noddies) but believe very little thereof or nothing at all, and hate all those who shall speak anything in the dispraise or the dishonor of our sex."

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