899 private quotes tagged women

“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.” — Alexander Pope

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“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.” — Will Rogers

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“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.” — Bertrand Russell

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“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.” — Robert Frost

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“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.” — H. L. Mencken

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“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.” — William Feather

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“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.” — Voltaire

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“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.” — Bertrand Russell

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“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Women. They are a complete mystery.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.” — Samuel Butler

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“All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.” — Maya Angelou

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“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.” — William Shakespeare

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“Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.” — Bertrand Russell

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“There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'” — Jerry Seinfeld

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“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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