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The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away.

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.

THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man!

The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.

The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But when I saw how easily the man flyers manipulated their machines I said I could fly.

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.

the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.

The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.

The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

The penalty for getting the woman you want is that you must keep her.

The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.

The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.