“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
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“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.”
“Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.”
“The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.”
“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.”
“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”
“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”
“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.”
“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”
“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.”
“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”
“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.”
“Women. They are a complete mystery.”
“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.”
“You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.”
“Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
“The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.”
“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”
“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.”
“Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.”
“Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.”
“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.'”