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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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

Mark Twain, American Author

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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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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."

Bette Davis, American Actress

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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."

Man

"Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man."

Woman

"It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast."

Pretty

"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully."

Fame

"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."

Life

"A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men."

Man

"Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index."

Writing

"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."

Life

"As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women."

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