A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph AddisonI married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributedThe trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- CherWomen: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Television showHeav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William CongreveAny intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora DuncanAll women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short storyThere is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- GiraudouxThe society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. HaasThe promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God KnowsWoman was God's second mistake. -- Friedrich NietzscheIf women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle OnassisWomen are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor RooseveltI hate women because they always know where things are. -- James ThurberI myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, 1913I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf |