God cursed the snake, but it finds sustenance everywhere.  God cursed the woman, but all men pursue her.
~ Talmud, Yoma, 75

Adams owed more to the American woman than to all the American men he ever heard of, and felt not the smallest call to defend his sex who seemed able to take care of themselves; but from the point of view of sex he flt much curiosity to know how far the woman was right, and, in pursuing this inquiry, he caught the trick of affirming that the woman was the superior.  Apart from truth, he owed her at least that compliment.
~ Henry Adams in The Education of Henry Adams, chapter 30

Woman is the chain by which man is attached to the chariot of folly.
~ Bharitihari, in The Sringa Satak

Nothing enchants the soul so much as young women. They alone are the cause of evil and there is no other.
~ Bharitihari, in The Sringa Satak

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
~ Marcus Porcius Cato

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I keep a little blue plug on my desk. It is there as a reminder to me not to do something stupid. Not that it really works (as is evidenced by me catching a scorpion Sunday night and bringing it into a colleagues office as a gift), but that is the intention nonetheless. Why a little blue plug? It is a Quickport Cat5e Jack for a wall outlet into which a network cable was inserted for a software training class to have internet access. I got up to get coffee, wasn’t watching where my feet were going, Read more