Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
Interpretation
Highly intelligent women may struggle to find partners due to their inability to take men's conversations seriously.
H. L. Mencken's quote suggests that as women become more intelligent, they may become less compatible with traditional expectations of relationships. Their heightened awareness and critical thinking capabilities could lead to a disconnect with potential partners, as they might find themselves unable to respect or engage with the perspectives offered by less intelligent men.
In practice
During a panel discussion on gender and intelligence.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.
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