"Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue."

Unknown, Source on Conversation
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"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on Virtue
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"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

Steinem, Gloria on Men and Women
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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius on Virtue
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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Paine, Thomas on Moderation
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"Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty."

Sue, Eugene on Poverty and The Poor
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"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

France, Anatole on Fashion
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"Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women."

Dworkin, Andrea on Fashion
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"Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted."

Jong, Erica on Sexuality
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"Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

Woolf, Virginia on Men and Women
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"Tenderness is a virtue."

Goldsmith, Oliver on Tenderness
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"A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it."

Stael, Germaine De on Public Opinion
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"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

Engel, Sigmund Z. on Age and Aging
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"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."

Steele, Sir Richard on Gossip
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"It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women."

Unknown, Source on Reputation
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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Women
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"It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him."

Rowland, Helen on Men and Women
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"Virtue that wavers is not virtue."

Milton, John on Virtue
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"A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman."

Dietrich, Marlene on Wives
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"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."

Paglia, Camille on Women
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"If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule."

Lawrence, D. H. on Prostitution
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"There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians."

Pompidou, Georges on Technology
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