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.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling β I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.
There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.
I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.
Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.
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