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Women

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. – Mary Roberts Rinehart

Women are beautiful, and yummy. – A.C. Van Cherub, c.1987

[H]er figure might be described by a poet as just set in the luxurious mould of womanhood. – “Diary of a Surgeon,” in The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; consist

A man chases a woman until she catches him. – American Proverb

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”

Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. – Méré

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Brains are an asset, if you hide them. – Mae West

Men will never know the agony of childbirth, menstrual cramps, or removing glitter nail polish. – Author unknown

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. – John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? – Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970

A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. – Edna Ferber

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. – Germaine Greer

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. – William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson

Women speak two languages — one of which is verbal. – William Shakespeare

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. – James Thurber

My eleven-year-old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow. – Bill Cosby

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. – Author Unknown

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. – H.L. Mencken