I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him. I know now what I would do if I were man and wanted to make a girl love me.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 5. Lucy Westenra paints women and weak and not able to fend for themselves. Which is why they marry a man in the hope that he will save them from their fears. Now if a man said this you would rightly accuse him of misogyny!