There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above....Every secret of a writer
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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