Quote by Henry Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. - Henry

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. – Henry Adams

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Miscellaneous
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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. – Minna Antrim

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Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night. – Jean Baudrillard

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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. – Joseph Addison

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Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely. – Basta

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