Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell that would tell anything.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
—D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Critic
Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
—Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) French Critic, Novelist
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head.
—Margaret Atwood (b.1939) Canadian Writer, Poet, Critic
Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
—Anais Nin (1903–77) French-American Essayist
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
—J. D. Salinger (1919–2010) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
—Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) German Philosopher, Linguist, Statesman
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
—Jane Austen (1775–1817) English Novelist
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
—Gloria Steinem (b.1934) American Feminist, Journalist, Activist, Political Advocate
A man’s idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady’s idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
—Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936) American Author, Writer, Humorist
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
—William Wycherley (c.1640–1716) English Dramatist
There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
—Robert Morrison MacIver (1882–1970) Scottish Sociologist
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
—Harriet Martineau (1802–76) English Sociologist, Economist, Philosopher, Essayist
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.
—Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022) American Social Critic, Essayist
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
—Clare Boothe Luce (1903–87) American Playwright, Diplomat, Journalist
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
I married beneath me. All women do.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1964) British Politician, Socialite
The woman is the home. That’s where she used to be, and that’s where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home—will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.
—Marguerite Duras (1914–96) French Novelist, Playwright
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won’t cry when she’s knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn’t allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.
—Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022) American Social Critic, Essayist
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
—Margaret Fuller (1810–50) American Feminist, Writer, Revolutionary
It’s only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
—Marguerite Duras (1914–96) French Novelist, Playwright
I … am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.
—Isaac Asimov (1920–92) Russian-born American Writer, Scientist
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him
—Indian Proverb
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