“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”
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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.”
“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”
“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”
“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.”
“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”
“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”
“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.”
“The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”
“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
“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.”
“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”
“Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.”
“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.”
“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.”
“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.”
“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.”