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- The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
- Edna O'Brien
- Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next-door is all the American male could wish for--unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.
- Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran
- 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 Booth Luce
- If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher
- I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters all the same.
- Oscar Wilde
- The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.
- Oscar Wilde
- Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
- Oscar Wilde
- Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
- Oscar Wilde
- There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that the past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
- Oscar Wilde
- A woman will flirt with anyone in the world as long as other people are looking on.
- Oscar Wilde
- Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces, and always prevent us from carrying them out.
- Oscar Wilde
- There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
- Oscar Wilde
- Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman – or the want of it in a man.
- Oscar Wilde
- All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
- Oscar Wilde
- Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
- Oscar Wilde
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