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“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”
— Rudyard Kipling
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“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.”
— Samuel Butler
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“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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“All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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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“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
— Louisa May Alcott
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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
— Samuel Johnson
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“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.”
— Rudyard Kipling
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“There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'”
— Jerry Seinfeld
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“Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.”
— Alexander Pope
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“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.”
— George Burns
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“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”
— Pablo Picasso
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“Women. They are a complete mystery.”
— Stephen Hawking
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“And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.”
— Sheryl Sandberg
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“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”
— Robert Frost
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“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.”
— H. L. Mencken
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