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I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

Christie Hefner

Businessman · American · b. 1952

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poet · American · 1809 – 1849

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Virginia Woolf

Author · British · 1882 – 1941

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Edgar Watson Howe

Editor · American · 1853 – 1937

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Samuel Richardson

Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Judge · American · b. 1930

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Anais Nin

Author · American · 1903 – 1977

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

Aeschylus

Poet · Greek

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

Author · British · 1882 – 1941

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Poet · English · 1809 – 1892

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Honore de Balzac

Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Stendhal

Writer · French · 1783 – 1842

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Sophocles

Poet · Greek

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Angela Carter

Novelist · English · 1940 – 1992

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Marcel Proust

Author · French · 1871 – 1922

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Jean de la Bruyere

Philosopher · French

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Gloria Steinem

Activist · American · b. 1934

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Jane Austen

Writer · British · 1775 – 1817

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Germaine Greer

Activist · Australian · b. 1939

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Chuck Palahniuk

Novelist · American · b. 1961

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

Victor Hugo

Author · French · 1802 – 1885

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

Taylor Caldwell

Author · American · 1900 – 1985

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

Emma Bonino

Politician · Italian · b. 1948

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.

Helen Rowland

Writer · American

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Philosopher · Swiss · b. 1821

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Emma Goldman

Activist · Lithuanian · 1869 – 1940

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

Mark Twain

Author · American · 1835 – 1910

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Novelist · French · b. 1873

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Walt Whitman

Poet · American · 1819 – 1892

Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.

Dan Lipinski

Politician · American · b. 1966

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Samuel Richardson

Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Theodore Roosevelt

President · American · 1858 – 1919

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Samuel Johnson

Author · English · 1709 – 1784

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Karl Kraus

Writer · Austrian · 1874 – 1936

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

Writer · British · 1775 – 1817

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Philosopher · Swiss · b. 1821

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

David Herbert Lawrence

Writer · English · 1885 – 1930

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Ambrose Bierce

Journalist · American · b. 1842

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Louisa May Alcott

Novelist · American · 1832 – 1888

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Joseph Joubert

Writer · French · 1754 – 1824

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Carl Sandburg

Poet · American · 1878 – 1967

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Politician · American · 1900 – 1965

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Mignon McLaughlin

Journalist · American · 1913 – 1983

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Voltaire

Writer · French · 1694 – 1778

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Clare Boothe Luce

Dramatist · American · 1903 – 1987

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