Women

(44 votes)   The clichT that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

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(43 votes)   A man's as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks.

Mortimer Collins

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(43 votes)   A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.

Marguerite de Valois

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(43 votes)   Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

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(43 votes)   She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

O. Henry Porter
1862-1910, American short-story Writer

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(42 votes)   But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(42 votes)   He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(42 votes)   Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.

John Crowne

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(42 votes)   Men should be saying ''I want to become a woman.'' The world would be a far better place if more men wanted to become women, than women wanted to become men.

Albert Halsey

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(42 votes)   The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.

Margaret Thatcher
1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90)

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(41 votes)   A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo.

Ruthie Stein

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(41 votes)   Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight David Eisenhower

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(41 votes)   If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

O. Henry Porter
1862-1910, American short-story Writer

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(41 votes)   It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.

Selma James

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(41 votes)   Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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