"The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on appearance   

"Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another."

O'Casey, Sean on sorrow   

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

Crisp, Quentin on atheism
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"Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?"

Greer, Germaine on inhibition   

"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence."

Beauvoir, Simone De on marriage
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"Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy. Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence."

Melbourne, Lord on self-image   

"It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors."

Bagnold, Enid on affection
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"Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human being can be crushed? I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies."

Schreiner, Olive on school   

"Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics."

Heinlein, Robert on happiness
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"it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat"

Giovanni, Nikki on obesity
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."

Unknown, Source on sex
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"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."

Ash, Mary Kay on praise
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"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after."

Steinem, Gloria on feminism
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"I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex."

Malkovich, John on daughters
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator."

Bagnold, Enid on sex
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"Sex is the last refuge of the miserable."

Crisp, Quentin on sex
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"Hair is another name for sex."

Sassoon, Vidal on sex   

"Sex is like money; only too much is enough."

Updike, John on sex
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"Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles."

Mikes, George on sex   

"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes."

Wilde, Oscar on compliments
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"Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other."

Sade, Marquis De on sex
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"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow."

Proverb on love
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"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes."

Saint-Laurent, Yves on dress   

"Our first and last love is... self-love."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on love
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"Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love."

Geraldy, Paul on youth
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"The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved."

Clyde, R.D. on happiness
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"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved."

Sand, George on love
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thích Nhat Hanh on love
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!"

Signoret, Simone on marriage   

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you."

Graham, Billy on love
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"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on love
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"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"When you don't have any money, the problem is food, When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, its. It's health, If everything is simple, then you're frightened of death."

Donleavy, J. P. on money
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