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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.
An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.
There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.
Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.
Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.
When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.
I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.
Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.
You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.