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Do you think I…

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Do you think I would have fawned on Creon, except to win some profit by my schemes? […] But he is such a fool that […] he has allowed me to stay this one day, in which three of my enemies I’ll send to their death

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It is natural for…

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It is natural for womenfolk to feel anger against a husband when he deals in contraband love

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You have…

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You have destroyed me lady

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O cursed children of…

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O cursed children of a hateful mother, I want you to die along with your father

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[Medea suddenly…

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[Medea suddenly appears above the stage in a chariot drawn by dragons visible also to the audience are the corpses of her children]

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Of all creatures that…

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Of all creatures that have life and reason we women are the most miserable of specimens

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In the first place, at…

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In the first place, at great expense we must buy a husband, taking master to play the tyrant with our bodies

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Share our home with…

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Share our home with a husband who finds marriage a yoke he bears with ease, our lives are to be envied. But if not, we’d be better off dead

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There should have been…

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There should have been some other means for mankind to reproduce itself, without the need of a female sex; this would rid the world of all its troubles

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When a man becomes…

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When a man becomes dissatisfied with married life, he goes outdoors and finds relief for his frustrations. But we are bound to love one partner and look no further

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But wrong a…

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But wrong a women in love and nothing on earth has a heart more murderous