"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors."

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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

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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, British Philosopher

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