Quotation by Shakespeare

I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many
giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their whole sex
withal.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Rosalind, in As You Like It, act 3, sc. 2, l. 347-50.

She is disguised as a boy, and mocks her own sex in speaking to Orlando.
Surprise me with a
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