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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'

A girl can't analyze marriage, and a woman dare not.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

All women are ambitious naturallie

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate to a domestic life has been able to occupy a position of honor and usefulness.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid of their power, or want to suppress them.

A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?'

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

Although I entertain great respect and regard for the female sex I consider the qualifications of the ladies to be already sufficiently charming without adding to their influence in society by conferring on them the right to vote for members of the legislature.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.