"A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting."

Unknown, Source on speech   

"Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse."

Rogers, Will on dress
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"Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away."

Charles V on fortune   

"The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on marriage   

"Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification."

Sharif, Omar on sex   

"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"

Hampton, Christopher on seduction   

"How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh."

Mencken, H. L. on suffering
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"To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful."

Yeats, William Butler on women
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

Frost, Robert on fools and foolishness
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"Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?"

Streisand, Barbara on marriage
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"Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in."

Stengel, Casey on baseball   

"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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"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."

Wolfe, Thomas on cooking
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"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open."

Nash, Ogden on marriage   

"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."

Shaw, George Bernard on marriage   

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"A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman."

Hwang, Brian on men   

"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

Goldsmith, Oliver on seduction
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"A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them."

Lush, Jean on weakness
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

Mencken, H. L. on flirting
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"A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her."

Rowland, Helen on wisdom
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"Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime -- I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on suffering   

"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."

Algren, Nelson on advice
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"The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her."

Shaw, George Bernard on women   

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"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us."

Gay, John on love
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"If I were asked for a one line answer to the question What makes a woman good in bed? I would say, A man who is good in bed."

Guccione, Bob on sex
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"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague."

Carter, Angela on morality   

"There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on age and aging
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"Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him."

Mencken, H. L. on husbands   

"Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above."

Skynard, Lynard on life   

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?"

Freud, Sigmund on women
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"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."

Rowland, Helen on compatibility
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"After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her."

Rowland, Helen on marriage   

"There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them."

Rowland, Helen on men   

"Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact."

Wilde, Oscar on conversation
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"A woman asking Am I good? Am I satisfied? is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be."

Cartland, Barbara on wives
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"The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle -- yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart."

Twain, Mark on sex   

"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."

Kierkegaard, Søren on joy
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