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Women

A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery. – Diana Stürm

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman. – Nancy Astor, My Two Countries

God did it on purpose so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you. – Mrs Patrick Campbell, in reply to a male acquaintance who asked why women seem t

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. – Helen Rowland

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. – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. – Elissa Melamed

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. – Compton Mackenzie, Literature in My Time, 1933

One is not born a woman, one becomes one. – Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. – Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue, 1925

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. – James Thurber, Time, 1960 August 15th

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. – Bette Davis, about Jayne Mansfield

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. – E.V. Lucas

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

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. – Robert Graves

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore. – Edward Dahlbert

A woman should be an illusion. – Ian Fleming

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. – Stephen Stills

It is because of men that women dislike one another. – Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog. – Caroline K. Simon