“You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.”
—William Congreve
It’s a line from a play called Love for Love. The quote is voiced by a character; so the presentation here lacks that context. The play was satirical, and I wouldn’t take the quote at face value. I think Congreve was voicing what had become the standard social games of his time—say like Barney on How I Met Your Mother.
why is this being downvoted? do people really not understand how true this is in our sex obsessed yet hypocritically puritan society? women have to put up with all the pathos of sex.
“You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.” —William Congreve
What does that mean?
My interpretation: “As a woman, you are stuck with not being allowed to speak what you think, but there is a workaround for this.”
It’s a line from a play called Love for Love. The quote is voiced by a character; so the presentation here lacks that context. The play was satirical, and I wouldn’t take the quote at face value. I think Congreve was voicing what had become the standard social games of his time—say like Barney on How I Met Your Mother.
why is this being downvoted? do people really not understand how true this is in our sex obsessed yet hypocritically puritan society? women have to put up with all the pathos of sex.
Because it is off-topic, having nothing to do with rationality. The same is true of your defence of it.
having nothing to do with rationality.
hahaha, we have a long way to go before we have any impact in the real world.