"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face."

Burke, Billie | Age and Aging | 4 bookmarks

"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."

Sayers, Dorothy L. | Age and Aging | 1 bookmarks

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Stael, Germaine De | Desire | 3 bookmarks

"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother."

Sanger, Margaret | Birth Control | 1 bookmarks

"Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed."

Greer, Germaine | Marriage | 2 bookmarks

"A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques | Words | 3 bookmarks

"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."

Chapman, George | Advice | 3 bookmarks

"Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent."

Clarke, W. A. | Marriage | 5 bookmarks

"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman."

Wilde, Oscar | Romance and Romanticism | 3 bookmarks

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu | Attachment | 7 bookmarks