(3312 quotes found)
“The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.”
Victor Hugo
“A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and a sympathetic woman gets him.”
Helen Rowland
“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.”
“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”
Oscar Wilde
“You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her”
Ada Leverson
“Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.”
Hoosier Farmer
“When you educate a man you educate an individual when you educate a woman you educate a whole family”
Johnetta Cole
“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
“I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships”
Gilda Radner
“Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman”
Friedrich Nietzsche