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1 " Men and women in their very essence -in their souls if you wish- have natural parity. (...) This was a relatively new idea at the time [of Shakespeare]. It ran counter to the teaching in the Bible -Eve's being made out of Adam's rib to be his helpmate -which was the basis for the idea, held for so long, that women do not have souls of their own but are dependent on their fathers' and husbands' . "
― , Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
2 " I admit, that the brain does not govern the body as well as one might wish- else all men would be saints and hell would be empty of lechers. "
― Meredith Duran , At Your Pleasure
