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What men desire is a virgin who himself is a whore.

• Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." ~Clare Boothe Luce

• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute. ~Rebecca West

• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." ~Shirley Chisholm

• I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married. ~Marlo Thomas

• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~Roseanne Barr

• Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.

• I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ~Madonna Ciccone

• I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.

• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. ~Lois Wyse

• There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. ~Florynce Kennedy

• Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ~Joan Baez

• A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda

• A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. ~Gloria Steinem

• The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ~Lucretia Mott

• To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb

• Being a lady is an attitude. ~Chuck Woolery, Love Connection
• I think, therefore I'm single. ~Lizz Winstead

• When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. ~Shana Alexander

• Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. ~Marya Mannes

• We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem

• “When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”

• “Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved”\

• “You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her”

• “A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.”

• “God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him”

• “Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely”

• “Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions

• “Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

• “Men play the game; women know the score”

• “Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her”

• “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

• “I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”

• “The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back”

• “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”

• “Women prefer emotions to reasoning”

• “Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms”

• "When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man."

• "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes;
  when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

• A woman is the full circle.
  Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
  
  ~ Diane Mariechild ~

• Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece.

• Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

• A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

• Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton

• Women are always beautiful. ~Ville Valo

• Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

• There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright

• Men get laid, but women get screwed. ~Quentin CrispWomen really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble. ~"Doctor Leon," drleons.com

• Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner

• Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

• Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners. ~George du Maurier

• They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. ~Oliver Goldsmith

• Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

• Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire

• She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. ~Woody Allen, Getting Even, 1973

• A woman should soften but not weaken a man. ~Sigmund Freud

• The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panti-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head. ~Margaret Atwood

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman. ~Nancy Astor, My Two Countries

• I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin

• If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

• A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~Washington Irving

• Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas

• A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. ~Elbert Hubbard

• What men desire is a virgin who himself is a whore. ~Edward Dahlbert

• It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ~Tallulah Bankhead

• With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

• Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. ~John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696

• To get to a woman's heart, a man must first use his own. ~Mike Dobbertin,

• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~Samuel Johnson

• Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. ~William Shakespeare

• Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. ~James Thurber

• I hate women because they always know where things are. ~Voltaire

• Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

• Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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