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“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”
Oscar Wilde
“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
Helen Rowland
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
Groucho Marx
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me”
Abraham Lincoln
“I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean”
“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
“When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”
Nancy Friday
“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.”
“Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact”
“A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses”
Henry Louis Mencken
