Backgrounds Quote by Marie Corelli

“Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's cleverness there's…

— Karolina Pavlova

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

— Oscar Wilde

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't…

— Yoko Ono

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

— Rudyard Kipling

“The ability of women is not acknowledged; indeed, it is concealed. Wise women pretend that all they are doing is running a household when…

— Phillippa Gregory

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of…

— Gertrude Atherton

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

— Dorothy Parker

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that…

— Anais Nin

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a…

— Charles Cumming

“To say it for those who know how to explain a thing: women have the intelligence, men the heart and passion. This is not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

— Arthur Schopenhauer