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Both of these fictional women were centuries ahead of their time for their feminist views; which one is from the sixteenth century and which from the nineteenth?

Who Said It: Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing) Or Elizabeth (Pride And Prejudice)?

Beatrice

"I had rather hear a dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."

Elizabeth

"It is such a spur to one's genius, such an opening for wit to have a dislike of that kind."

"Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. -- I really cannot laugh at it; you are safe from me."

"Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.''

"It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man."

"It is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you'. But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me'."

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."

"Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen."

"O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace."

"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it."

"Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?''

"But for which of my good parts did you first suffer love for me?"

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Who Said It: Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing) Or Elizabeth (Pride And Prejudice)?

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