Characteristics Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it. ... Because women are on the ground…

— Liza Donnelly

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some women feel power is important, some women feel that looks are important, tenderness, intelligence...but sense of humor seems to permeate all of them.

— Woody Allen

“Why must the female mind be tainted by coquetish arts to gratify the sensualist, and prevent love from subsiding into friendship or compassionate tenderness,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be…

— Vir Das

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing…

— Agnes Varda

I feel humor is important for those two reasons: that it is a little bit of refreshment like music, and that women have told…

— Woody Allen

Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the…

— William Hazlitt

Often it's seen as empowering if you're cleverer than the men, or more aware - then you're giving the woman a great strong role.…

— Natasia Demetriou

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field…

— Charlotte Brontë