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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Honore de Balzac on women

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon on women

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer on women

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad on women

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley on women

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
Desiderius Erasmus on women

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Anatole France on women

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Yul Brynner on women

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber on women

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
E. M. Forster on women

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Amelia Barr on women

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
Sofia Vergara on women

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Kathleen Turner on women

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
George Santayana on women

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Gloria Steinem on women

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Gloria Steinem on women

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

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
Gary Oldman on women

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
Josh Billings on women

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
Georgia O'Keeffe on women