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Women Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
- The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are…
- Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they…
- Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.
- I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in…
- Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
- Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.
- Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
- Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.
- Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
- If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
- War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net…
- Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
- The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the…
- A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
- Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
- The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
- It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to…
- Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
- No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
- Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year…
- Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood