And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
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And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!
Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
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