Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex.
We cannot fight for love, as men may do.
We should be wooed and were not made to woo.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Scene 1. Helena complains to Demetrius that society finds it acceptable for men to woo women, but not for women to woo men. She accuses him of causing a "scandal on my sex" because she has had to be the one to pursue him. Helena has been chasing Demetrius through the forest, while he has told her that he is not interested in her.