Thomas Hardy quotes on women

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt about them as most women are taught to feel--to be on their guard against attacks on their virtue; for no average man-- no man short of a sensual savage--will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look 'Come on' he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.

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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

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Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

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Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?

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But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.

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