How we cite our quotes: Act.Scene
Quote #7
Vit. …Take it for words—O woman's poor revenge
Which dwells but in the tongue, I will not weep… (3.2)
Vittoria argues that women can only get revenge verbally—which would be a poignant cry against patriarchy, if we didn't know that Vittoria played a crucial role in a plot to murder her husband and her lover's wife (which goes a little bit beyond verbal violence).
Quote #8
Brach. Right! there are plots. Your beauty! Oh, ten thousand curses on 't! How long have I beheld the devil in crystal! Thou hast led me, like an heathen sacrifice, With music, and with fatal yokes of flowers, To my eternal ruin. Woman to man Is either a god, or a wolf. (4.2)
Brachiano attacks Vittoria when he thinks she's cheated on him (she hasn't) and makes a crazy generalization about all women. Unable to accept that he basically chose to murder his own wife and Camillo (though Vittoria had some input, it seems), he casts off blame on her beauty.
Quote #9
Flam. What a damn'd imposthume is a woman's will!
Can nothing break it? [Aside.] Fie, fie, my lord,
Women are caught as you take tortoises,
She must be turn'd on her back. Sister, by this hand
I am on your side. (4.2)
Flamineo sees women as being excessively willful—which is funny, since he and Vittoria are both incredibly willful, in a negative way.