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

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

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 promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

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 women are ambitious naturallie

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

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

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.

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

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, 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 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 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.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.

A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.

A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.

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

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes, Sweet bath, suavely Scented with ointments, has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside differences.... Social feminists [in Europe]believe that men and society at large should provide systematic support to women in recognition of their dual role as mothers and workers.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.