"He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him."

Shakespeare, William on women
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"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is."

Schreiner, Olive on women   

"Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving."

Gray, John on women
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"Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished."

Gray, John on women
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"It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago."

Clark, Eugenie on women
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"A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking."

Chazal, Malcolm De on women
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"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."

Chanel, Coco on women
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"Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on women   

"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant."

Byron, Lord on women
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"Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got."

Billings, Josh on women
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"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at."

Berger, John on women
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"Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night."

Baudrillard, Jean on women   

"Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely."

Basta on women
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"Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically."

Barry, Dave on women
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"Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him."

Antrim, Minna on women
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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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"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."

Connolly, Cyril on women
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"Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds."

Crowne, John on women
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"The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world."

Grable, Betty on women
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"Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last."

Gourmont, Remy De on women
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"It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her."

Geraldy, Paul on women
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"I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them."

Gay, John on women
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"Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!"

Gay, John on women
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"Women lie about their age; men lie about their income."

Feather, William on women
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"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

Eliot, George on women   

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"There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."

Finod De, J. on marriage
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"Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us."

Davis, Evan on women
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"Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs."

Dowling, Colette on women   

"Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on women   

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

Eliot, George on women
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"Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself."

Valery, Paul on self-sabotage
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"Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it."

Horton, Doug on selfishness
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"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 on marriage
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"Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness."

Greer, Germaine on love   

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

Greer, Germaine on loneliness
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