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A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.

—Mae West

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Women hope men will change after marriage, but they don't; men hope women won't change, but they do.

—Bettina Arndt

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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

—Brendan Francis

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It isn’t about looks; gorgeous women get dumped every day.

—Sherry Argov in Why Men Love Bitches

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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

—P.G. Wodehouse

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Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

—Errol Flynn

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I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

—Frank Sinatra

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A woman is like a tea bag — you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

—Virginia Woolf

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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

—George Burns

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

—Joseph Conrad

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My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. . . . I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines.

—Trieu Thi Trinh

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The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time . . . love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

—Lawrence Durrell

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Women have the power of life and death. We, after all, give birth and the fate of humanity is in our hands. That is why men try so hard to rule us, my dear. They know if we once looked well on what they have made of the human existence, we might close our legs and within our barren wombs bring the comedy to an end.

—Alice Borchardt

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