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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
Phyllis McGinley
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Earl of Chesterfield
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara De Angelis
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A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
Finley Peter Dunne
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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.
H. L. Mencken
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
Colette
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
Julie Burchill
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem
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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
Joseph Addison
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.
Margaret Mead
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Either sex alone is half itself.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
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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.
Jean Baudrillard
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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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.
William Shakespeare
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
Phyllis McGinley
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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.
Coco Chanel
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I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
Germaine Greer
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
James Thurber
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I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
John Gay
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I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos
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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.
George Eliot
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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
George Eliot
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I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.
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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
George Bernard Shaw
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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Cyril Connolly
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It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust
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Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
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Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.
Minna Antrim
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
H. L. Mencken
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Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.
Germaine Greer
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. Mencken
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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
John Berger
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Men and women, women and men; it will never work.
Erica Jong
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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
Barbara De Angelis
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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.
Olive Schreiner
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
Edward Hoagland
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
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Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Samuel Johnson
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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
Josh Billings
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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
Michael Korda
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Men never remember, but women never forget.
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Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Walter Bagehot
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Germaine Greer
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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
Aristotle
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Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
Helen Rowland
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
John Gay
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The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
Margaret Thatcher
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D. H. Lawrence
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The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
Oscar Wilde
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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
D. H. Lawrence
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal
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The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.
Margaret Oliphant Oliphant
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
Rebecca West
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The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.
Lydia Child
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The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
D. H. Lawrence
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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
Maya Angelou
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The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.
Marguerite Duras
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry Adams
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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
Jane Austen
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Denis Diderot
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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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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.
Marlene Dietrich
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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.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest -- blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says -- Work; and to us it says -- Seem! To you it says -- As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labor is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says -- Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labor. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.
Olive Schreiner
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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
Nicolas Chamfort
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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
Minna Antrim
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
George Eliot
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Golda Meir
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Jane Austen
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Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.
Andrea Dworkin
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Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
Mae West
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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
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Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
William Feather
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde
Men and Women
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