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American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

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The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one!

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Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

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By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

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One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

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Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

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Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

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During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.

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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

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