Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them – ‘A bookshop Idyll’(1956) by Kingsley Amis –1922-95 English Novelist and Poet

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around.

The accused power which stands on
Privilege(And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge)
Broke – and Democracy resumed her reign:
(Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne).

‘On a Greater Election’ (1923)   by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) British poet, essayist, historian, novelist and Liberal politician

Women have no wilderness in them,
They are provident instead,
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To eat dusty bread.

‘Women’ (1923) – by Louise Bogan 1897-1970 American Poet

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

response to a question about the position of women at a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee conference, November 1964.

by Stokely Carmichael 1941 - 98

All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
Wilde

Hail Sovereign Queen of secrets, that hast power
To call the fiercest Tyrant from his rage;
And weep unto a girl; that has the might
Even with an eye-glance, to cloak Mars’s Drum
And turn th’allarm to whispers,  that canst make
A Cripple flourish with his Crutch, and cure him
Before Apollo; that may’st force the King
To be his subjects’ vassal, and induce
Stale gravity to daunce.
Shakespeare

EROS: As his parentage is, so also are his fortunes.  In the first place he is always poor, and anything but tender and fair, as the many imagine him; and he is rough and squalid, and has no shoes, nor a house to dwell in; on the bare earth exposed he lies under the open heaven, in the streets, or at the doors of houses, taking his rest; and like his mother (Poverty) he is always in distress.  Like his father (Plenty) too, whom he also partly resembles, he is always plotting against the fair and good; he is bold, enterprising, strong, a mighty hunter, always weaving some intrigue or other, keen in the pursuit of wisdom, fertile in resources; a philosopher at all times, terrible as an enchanter, sorcerer, sophist.  He is by nature neither mortal nor immortal, but alive and flourishing at one moment when he is in plenty, and dead at another moment, and again alive by reason of his father’s nature.
Plato

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life; for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
Goethe

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature.  She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
by Anita Brookner (b.1938) BRITISH NOVELIST AND ART HISTORIAN

A women who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold. Damaged Gods, ‘Born again Cows’ (1986) – by Julie Burchill (b.1960) British Journalist And Author

It seems as though women keep growing.  Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
Quoted in Ms. August 1979 – by Eugenie Clark (b.1922) Us Marine Biologist And Author

There are only three things to be done with a woman.  You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Clea, in Justine, Pt 1 (1957) – by Lawrence Durrell (1914-91) British Author
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?
Quoted in the Observer 30 September 1956 – by (Dame) Edith Evans (1888 – 1976) British Actress

Being a woman is worse than being a farmer – there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done; legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, skin exfoliated and moisturized spots, cleansed, roots dyed, eyelashes tinted, nails filed, cellulite massaged, stomach muscles exercised.  The whole performance is so highly tuned you only need to neglect it for a few days for the whole thing to go to seed…Is it any wonder girls have no confidence?

Bridget Jones’s Diary, ‘Tuesday 3 January’ (1996) – by Helen Fielding (b.1958) British Author

In mixed company, women practice a sort of visual shorthand, which, later, they will laboriously and at great length decode in the company of other women.
Chazal

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is: What does a woman want?
Freud

If a man hears much that a woman says, she is not beautiful.
Haskins

There is one phase of life that I have never heard
discussed in any seminar
And that is that all women think men are funny and
all men think that weminar
Nash

One can, to an almost laughable degree, infer what a man’s wife is like from his opinions about women in general.
Mill

A woman is more responsive to a man’s forgetfulness than to his attentions.
Janin

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with (them).
Addison

A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.
Goethe

The best man for a man and the best man for a woman are not the same.
Ortega Y Gasset

Men are men, but Man is a woman.
Chesterton

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
Bulwer-Lytton

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost.  They are added to other women’s/
Diane De Poitiers

The fundamental fault of the female character is that it has no sense of justice.
Schopenhauer

Even when they meet in the street, women look at one another like Guclphs and Ghibellines
Schopenhauer

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.
Barbey D’aurevilly

Women are always afraid of things, which have to be divided.
Balzac

A man keeps another’s secret better than he does his own.  A woman, on the other hand, keeps her own better than another’s.
La Bruyere

She takes just like a woman, yes she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

‘Just Like a Woman’ (song).
‘Absolutely Sweet Marie’ (Song).A similar line spoken in Don Siegel’s film The Line Up (1938) – by Bob Dylan (b.1941) Us Singer And Songwriter

Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Collier’s Magazine 10 June 1955 – by Christian Dior (1905-57) French Couturier

Some women respond to the whip, some to the kiss.  Most of them likely a mixture of both, but none of them answer to the mind alone, to the intellectual demand, unless they are man dressed as woman.

From his notebooks, quoted in The Life of Ian Fleming. Ch. 8 sect.1(1966) by John Pearson. See Rosamond Lehmann  – By Ian Fleming (1908-64) British Author

Women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
Jenny Blair, in The Sheltered Life. Pt.3sect.3 (1932) – by Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945) US NOVELIST

by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British Novelist, Critic And Essayist

Why do the men cry? Because of fights and feats and marathon preferment, because they want their mothers, because they are blind in time, because of all the hard-ones they have to whistle up out of the thin blue yonder, because of all that men have done.  Because they can’t be happy or sad any more – only smashed or nuts.  And because they don’t know how to do it when they’re aware.

The Information, pt1 (1995) by Martin Amis (b.1949) – British Author

It is more than likely that if men were to disappear from the face of the earth, for whatever reason, there is a modest, unobtrusive creature somewhere that would develop into a new form and take our place.

Life on Earth, ‘The Compulsive Communicators’ (1979) – by (Sir) David Attenborough (b.1926) – British Naturalist And Broadcaster

Bloody men are like bloody buses-
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear

‘Bloody Men’,  published in Serious Concerns (1992) – by Wendy Cope (b.1945) British Poet
The men/buses analogy had been current for some time newspaper editor Wendy Henry was quoted in the Observer 30 January 1983: ‘Men are like buses.  If you miss one, there’s always another round the corner. But don’t get  caught at the wrong stop.’

Men are not in any sense irreplaceable, except in one’s private life.

Quoted in the International Herald Tribune 20 May 1991- by Edith Cresson (b.1934) French Politician  And Prime Minister.

 Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak and fragile.  Men, not women are the weaker sex.

Chicago Tribune 16 March 1978 – by Jerry Rubin (1938-94) Us Essayist And Radical Leader

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

‘The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door’, speech at State University of New York, 1 March 1975. publ. In Our Blood, ch.4 (1976) – by Andrea Dworkin (b.1946) Us Feminist Critic.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming  mannerisms of the women they have known
The Crack-up. ‘ Notebook E’ (ed. Edmund Wilson,1945) – by Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) US Author

The world men inhabit … is rather bleak.  It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not cooperation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

Men  Concluding chapter (1985) – by Anna Ford (b.1943) British Broadcaster.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament

Quoted by Gloria Steinem, in ‘The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq. published in Ms. March 1973 – by Florynce R. Kennedy (1916-2000) US Lawyer And Civil Rights Activist

Men are… a mystery.  After all, they spit, they punch, they scream, they rant, they kick each other when they’re down and think nothing of putting their hands down their shorts and fiddling about.  Of course, if they did it in the street they ‘d be arrested – but if they do it on a pitch they’re worth £7 million
You Can Read Me Like a Book, ch.6 (1995) – by Maureen Lipman (b.1946) British Comedy Actress

Don’t accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell.

‘Letter to a Sister Underground’ – by Robin Morgan (b.1941) US Feminist Author And Poet

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they may be considered only women.

Esquire November 1958 – by Theodor Reik (1888 – 1969) US Psychologist

If men could menstruate…. clearly, menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event:  Men would brag about how long and how much… Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free.  Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of such commercial brands as Sachin Tendulkar’s Tampons, Muhammed Ali’s Rope-a-Dope Pads, Adnan Sami Maxi Pads, and Vivek Oberoi’s Shields – ‘For Those Light Bachelor Days’.

‘If Men Could Menstruate’ ,publ. in Ms. October 1978, repr. ibid – by Gloria Steinem (b.1934  US Feminist Writer And Editor

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
Ms. July/August 1981- by by Gloria Steinem (b.1934  US Feminist Writer And Editor.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Interview on BBC radio, 14 January 1972 – by Margaret Thatcher (b.1925) British Politician And Prime Minister

It’s not the men in my life, but the life in my men.

Tira (Mae West), in I’m No Angel (film 1933, screenplay by Mae West and Harlan Thompson, directed by Westley Ruggies). Rephrasing a reporter’s remarks. – by  Mae West (1892-1980) US Actress.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Gallup, in ‘The Hopeful Pessimist’, published in Looking Forward & Others (1926) – by Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) US Author.

Men are cleverer than women at reasoning, women are cleverer than men at drawing conclusions.  A parliament in which the members were predominantly women would get through its legislation much faster.
Ghazal

The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Coleridge

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George Eliot

In Paris, when God provides a beautiful woman, the devil at once retorts with a fool to keep her. 
Barbey D’aurevily.

The wife carries the husband on her face;  the husband carries the wife on his linen.
Bulgarian Proverb

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the … power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf

Men always want to be a woman’s first love, women like to be a man’s last romance.
Wilde

It is because of men that women dislike one another.
La Bruyere

Clothes by a man who doesn’t know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

of Dior’s New Look
in VanityFair June 1994 by Coco Chanel -1883-1971 French couturiere