A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

—Mignon McLaughlin

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resorting to physical strength?

—Barbara Deming

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

—Washington Irving

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

—J. M. Barrie

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

—Groucho Marx

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

—Marcel Archard