“The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.”
“You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.”
“Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.”
“Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.”
“If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.”
“These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.”
“I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.”
“It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.”
“To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.”
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
“Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”
“Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.”
“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”
“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”
“Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.”
“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
“The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.”
“Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.”
“Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.”
“I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.”
“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”
“It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.”
“If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.”
“The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.”
“Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!”
“Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.”
“I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?”
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
“There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”
“Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.”