Measure for Measure Quotes: Treatment of Women

Question 1

2:4, 127

Answer 1

Isabella: Women? […] Men their creation mar

In profiting by them

Question 2

5:1, 172

Answer 2

Duke: What, are you married?
Mariana: No, my lord.
Duke: Are you a maid?
Mariana: No, my lord.
Duke: A widow, then?
Mariana: Neither, my lord.
Duke: Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife!
Lucio: My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.