“A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.”
“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”
“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
“It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.”
“Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.”
“Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.”
“The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.”
“The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”
“A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.”
“He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.”
“Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.”
“There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.”
“The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.”
“No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.”
“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.”
“Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.”
“A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.”
“To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.”
“The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.”
“Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
“Men should be saying ''I want to become a woman.'' The world would be a far better place if more men wanted to become women, than women wanted to become men.”
“It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.”
“I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.”
“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man.”
“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.”
“Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.”
“A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.”
“I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.”