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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous woman, which are to keep home and be silent.

You forget too much That every creature, female as the male, Stands single in responsible act and thought As also in birth and death.

A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware: I would not play her larcenous tricks To have her looks!

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.