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1. "In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

2. "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

Simone De Beauvoir, "The Second Sex"

3. "When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend."

Menander, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Marriage

4. "A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "English Notebooks"

Quotations about: Various

5. "Nature has given women so much power that the law has wisely given them very little."

Samuel Johnson

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Power and Weakness

6. "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

Timothy Leary

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

7. "Miss, n.: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market."

Ambrose Bierce

8. "Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born."

Khalil Gibran

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

9. "My mother said it was simple to keep a man: you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit."

Jerry Hall

Quotations about: Marriage

10. "Every woman should marry - and no man."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair"

Quotations about: Marriage

11. "In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."

Margaret Thatcher

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Work and Laziness

12. "Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Anita Brookner, "Hotel du Lac"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

13. "My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do, they might tell you something you don't want to hear."

Joseph Delaney, "The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch"

14. "The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool."

Rudyard Kipling, "Plain Tales from the Hills"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

15. "Marriage is like a war. There are moments of chivalry and gallantry that attend the victorious advances and strategic retreats, the birth or death of children, the momentary conquest of loneliness, the sacrifice that ennobles him who makes it. But mostly there are the long dull sieges, the waiting, the terror and boredom. Women understand this better than men; they are better able to survive attrition."

Helen Hayes, "On Reflection"

Quotations about: Marriage -:- Peace and War

16. "In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Love

17. "Association with women is the basis of good manners."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

18. "One cup of wine is good for a woman; two are degrading; three make her wanton; four destroy her sense of shame."

Talmud

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

19. "Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

20. "We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."

Margaret Atwood

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

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21. "The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public."

Phyllis Diller

22. "There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them."

Kin Hubbard

23. "The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run."

John Barrymore

24. "I get little enjoyment out of women, more out of alcohol, most out of ideas."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Prejudices"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Joy and Sadness

25. "One of the most difficult tasks in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money."

E. W. Howe

Quotations about: Richness and Money

26. "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."

Walt Disney

Quotations about: Various

27. "Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away."

George Brossin Méré

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

28. "Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Time and Passing

29. "What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."

Edward Dahlberg, "Reasons of the Heart"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Manners and Ethics

30. "An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Marriage

31. "A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first, she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, "Uncle Vanya"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

32. "I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

33. "A woman is a hunter without a forest."

Christina Stead

Quotations about: Various

34. "Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female."

Moss Hart

Quotations about: Happiness

35. "Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."

John Barrymore

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Love

36. "When I?m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I?m near."

E.Y. Harburg, "Finian's Rainbow"

Quotations about: Love

37. "The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

38. "It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there."

Elsie de Wolfe, "The House in Good Taste"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

39. "There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings."

Sarah M. Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- History and Nations

40. "Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman’s entire but decisive advantage. Through man’s passions, nature has given man into woman’s hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise."

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, "Venus in Furs"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

41. "Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house."

Jean Kerr, "The Snake Has All the Lines"

Quotations about: Marriage

42. "I think being a woman is like being Irish.... Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

Iris Murdoch, "The Red and the Green"

43. "For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do—they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities."

John Updike

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

44. "At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."

P. G. Wodehouse

45. "Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman.... It is only man’s egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities."

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, "Venus in Furs"

Quotations about: Love -:- Manners and Ethics

46. "The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby."

Natalie Wood

47. "A mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law in one house are like two cats in a bag."

Jewish proverb

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Marriage

48. "A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love."

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Quotations about: Love

49. "The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale."

Phyllis Rose, "Women's Lives"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

50. "Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

Iris Murdoch, "The Message to the Planet"

Quotations about: Marriage

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