“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
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Voices on women
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
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“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”
“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”
“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”
“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
“Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.”
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
“It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.”
“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.”
“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”
“Silence is an ornament for women.”
“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”
“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”
“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”
“Women are made to be loved, not understood.”
“When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.”
“Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.”