Als Quote by Elinor Glyn

To have "It", the fortunate possessor must have that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes. He or she must be entirely unselfconscious and full…

— Elinor Glyn

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

— Victor Hugo

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

— Ada Leverson

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those…

— Rene Descartes

It is the success which makes great men.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

— George William Curtis

men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

— Dale Spender

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled…

— Leo Tolstoy

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to…

— Murasaki Shikibu

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be…

— Joseph Addison

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side…

— Werner Herzog

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

— Washington Irving