An ornate standing mirror reflects an empty upholstered chair in a quiet violet-gray room.

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Hamlet ‧ 1602

William Shakespeare

Vanity! Thy name is woman!

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The sentence turns vanity into a hostile generalisation about women. It remains the speaker’s judgment rather than a claim about every woman or an authenticated Shakespeare quotation.

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