"The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's."

Williams, Shirley on catholicism   

"If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief."

Vidal, Gore on charm   

"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology."

Freud, Sigmund on girls
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"What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series."

Barry, Dave on women
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"Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."

Shaw, George Bernard on humankind   

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"Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired."

Goldman, William on hollywood   

"In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do."

Neal, Patricia on age and aging
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"It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!"

Pirandello, Luigi on frustration   

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys."

Welles, Orson on women
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"Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education."

Schlegel, Friedrich on innocence   

"To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love."

Webb, Mary on marriage   

"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."

Dietrich, Marlene on women
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"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face."

Burke, Billie on age and aging
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"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."

Dietrich, Marlene on forgiveness
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"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

Esar, Evan on home   

"Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house."

Johnson, Ben on home
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"When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Hugo, Victor on listening
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"If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him."

Howe, Edgar Watson on love
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"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."

Bruyere, Jean De La on voice   

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

Rowland, Helen on weddings   

"There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue."

Hinckley, Gordon B. on virtue
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"A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks."

Collins, Mortimer on age and aging   

"There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded."

Fleming, Robert B. on men
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"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on music
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"No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time."

Rowland, Helen on reputation
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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   

"A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others."

La Bruyere, Jean De on secrets
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"A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."

Reagan, Nancy on women
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"We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us."

Day, J. Dabney on commitment   

"A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation."

Goldsmith, Oliver on dress   

"The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on sports
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"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."

Wilde, Oscar on daughters
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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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"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on women
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"One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything."

Wilde, Oscar on trust
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"If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds."

Kraus, Krystal Ann on performance   

"Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life."

Carnegie, Dale on philosophers and philosophy
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"You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body."

Guccione, Bob on seduction
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