“While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.”
“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
“And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.”
“Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.”
“Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.”
“A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.”
“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.”
“A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo.”
“The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”