womankind quotes

Virtue's no more in womankind But the green sickness of the mind. Philosophy, their new delight, A kind of charcoal appetite.

-John Cleveland
  'The  Antiplatonic'.

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

-JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
c.1675  Letter to his mistress, the actress Elizabeth Barry. In The Letters ofJohnWilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited byJeremy Treglown (1980).

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

- George Bernard Shaw
  DonJuan. Man and Superman, act 3.