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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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Personal Development

"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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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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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."
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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."
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"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house."
Love

"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
Man

"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind."
Mind

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."
Money

"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
Woman

"Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?"
Coffee

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
Losing

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
Feelings

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."
Being

"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on."
People
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