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1. "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

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

Natalie Wood

3. "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

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

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Quotations about: Love

5. "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

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

Iris Murdoch, "The Message to the Planet"

Quotations about: Marriage

7. "Woman was God's second mistake."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

8. "Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing."

Herman Melville, "Redburn"

9. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."

Irish proverb

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Love

10. "Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do."

Bettina Arndt, "Private Lives"

Quotations about: Marriage

11. "In America, every female under fifty calls herself a "girl.""

H.E. Bates, "Summertime"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

12. "That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say No in any of them."

Dorothy Parker

13. "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, "Essays"

Quotations about: Marriage -:- Youth and Age

14. "The one nice thing about sports is that they prove men do have emotions and are not afraid to show them."

Jane O`Reilly, "The Girl I Left Behind"

Quotations about: Various

15. "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband."

Booth Tarkington, "Looking Forward and Others"

Quotations about: Marriage

16. "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

Quotations about: Love -:- Reality and Imagination

17. "In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."

Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"

Quotations about: Love

18. "At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."

Honoré De Balzac

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Talent and Genius

19. "No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

20. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Quotations about: Marriage

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21. "Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Loyalty and Betrayal -:- Truth and Falsity

22. "The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

23. "To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different"; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Happiness

24. "To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Love

25. "Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?"

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

26. "What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Sin and Conscience

27. "Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

28. "A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Marriage

29. "Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!"

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience -:- Wit and Humor

30. "Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

31. "Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Marriage

32. "The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."

Maureen Murphy

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

33. "Beware of women who read-they also think."

Anne Holt

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

34. "The woman cries before the wedding and the man after."

Polish proverb

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness -:- Marriage

35. "A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman."

Wallace Stevens

Quotations about: Art and Culture

36. "Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball."

Deborah Tannen

37. "A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave and eight times as lusty as a man."

Chanakya

38. "Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."

James Thurber

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

39. "A woman's greatest power is her vulnerability."

Anon.

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

40. "If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war."

Carrie Snow

Quotations about: Peace and War

41. "Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's."

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein

Quotations about: Love

42. "Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money."

Satchel Paige

Quotations about: Richness and Money

43. "Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

44. "A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are."

Chauncey Depew

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

45. "Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior."

Socrates

Quotations about: Authority, Government

46. "What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature."

George Meredith

Quotations about: Egoism

47. "There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Alphonse de Lamartine

48. "Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands."

Ambrose Bierce

49. "Alimony: funds which allow a woman who lived unhappily married to live happily unmarried."

Anon.

Quotations about: Marriage

50. "To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer."

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Quotations about: Question and Problem

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