Woman and Man

"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"

Family and Loneliness

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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

Authority, Government

History and Nations

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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."

Sacher-Masoch-Leopold-Von "Venus in Furs"

Dreams and Desires

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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."

Sacher-Masoch-Leopold-Von "Venus in Furs"

Love

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Natalie Wood

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Jewish Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Franz Grillparzer "Sappho"

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Phyllis Rose "Women's Lives"

Art and Culture

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Iris Murdoch "The Message to the Planet"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Woman was God's second mistake."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Defeates and Mistakes

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Herman Melville "Redburn"

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Irish Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Bettina Arndt "Private Lives"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

H.E. Bates "Summertime"

Woman and Man

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Dorothy Parker

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Francis Bacon "Essays"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Booth Tarkington "Looking Forward and Others"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Love

Reality and Imagination

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Amiel-Henri-Frederic "Journal Intime"

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Honoré De Balzac

Beauty and Ugliness

Talent and Genius

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Loyalty and Betrayal

Truth and Falsity

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Happiness

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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"

Happiness

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Health and Alcohol

Sin and Conscience

Woman and Man

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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"

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Sin and Conscience

Wit and Humor

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Maureen Murphy

Politics and Diplomacy

Woman and Man

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Anne Holt

Intellect, Judgement

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Polish Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

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

Wallace Stevens

Art and Culture

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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

Sports

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Chanakya

Woman and Man

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

James Thurber

Wisdom and Stupidity

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

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Power and Weakness

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Carrie Snow

Peace and War

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Stael-Holstein-Anne-Louise-Germaine-de

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Richness and Money

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)