Quote by Henry James
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. – Henry James

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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I dont think any one will deny us. – Louisa May Alcott

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People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. Its quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people. – Mick Jagger

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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. – Mary Harris Jones

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Women

I dont really care what people tell children – when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib wont hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful. – Julie Burchill

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