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Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

George Weinberg

Psychologist · American

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

Author · British · 1882 – 1941

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Victor Hugo

Author · French · 1802 – 1885

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Gloria Steinem

Activist · American · b. 1934

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Jane Austen

Writer · British · 1775 – 1817

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag

Author · American · 1933 – 2004

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

H. L. Mencken

Writer · American · 1880 – 1956

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Writer · Canadian · 1919 – 1990

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Activist · American · 1815 – 1902

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

William Shakespeare

Dramatist · English · 1564 – 1616

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

William Shakespeare

Dramatist · English · 1564 – 1616

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Joyce Maynard

Writer · American · b. 1953

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

Writer · English · 1737 – 1809

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.

Thomas Fuller

Clergyman · English · 1608 – 1661

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

B. R. Ambedkar

Politician · Indian · 1891 – 1956

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

Sitting Bull

Statesman · Lakotan · d. 1890

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Maya Angelou

Poet · American · b. 1928

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer · English · 1874 – 1936

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

Writer · American · 1880 – 1956

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Kate Millett

Activist · American · b. 1934

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Jessica Savitch

Journalist · American · 1947 – 1983

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

George W. Bush

President · American · b. 1946

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Samuel Butler

Poet · British · 1835 – 1902

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

James Weldon Johnson

Poet · American · 1871 – 1938

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

Harri Holkeri

Politician · Finnish · b. 1937

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Helen Rowland

Writer · American

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

Leader · English · b. 1925

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

George Byron

Poet · Scottish · 1788 – 1824

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Marquis de Sade

Novelist · French · 1740 – 1814

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Clare Boothe Luce

Dramatist · American · 1903 – 1987

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

John F. Kennedy

President · American · 1917 – 1963

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

Andrew Greeley

Clergyman · American · b. 1928

Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

Sextus Propertius

Poet · Roman

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Margaret Thatcher

Leader · English · b. 1925

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Erica Jong

Novelist · American · b. 1942

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Samuel Richardson

Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Rebecca West

Author · Irish · 1892 – 1983

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

Marcel Proust

Author · French · 1871 – 1922

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Rita Mae Brown

Writer · American · b. 1944

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

Jose Marti

Activist · 1853 – 1895

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

Neil LaBute

Director · American · b. 1963

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Writer · American · 1906 – 2001

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag

Author · American · 1933 – 2004

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Gloria Steinem

Activist · American · b. 1934

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Chief Joseph

Leader · d. 1904

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

Constance Baker Motley

Activist · American · 1921 – 2005

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