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| There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail | | Mark Twain | |
| There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which, taken at the flood, leads God knows where | | Lord Byron | |
| There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash | | Zsa Zsa Gabor | |
| Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil | | Lord Byron | |
| Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesn’t get in our way. | | Sacha Guitry | |
| We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives. | | Ovid | |
| What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up? | | Robert Southey | |
| What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be | | Douglas Jerrold | |
| When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| When a woman turns to scholarship there is usually something wrong with her sexual opportunities | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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| When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. | | Honore de Balzac | |
| When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. | | Jean Giraudoux | |
| Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average. | | Garrison Keillor | |
| While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. | | Mark Twain | |
| Without knowing it, women act as if they were taking away the stones from the path of the wandering mineralogist in order that he might not strike his foot against them - when he has gone out for the very purpose of striking against them | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her | | Honore de Balzac | |
