Quote by Oscar Wilde

“There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to…

— Anne Brontë

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When they took…

— Oscar Wilde

“But it seemed to him that there should be a difference in his attitude. All the distress that he had ever known, the sorrow…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

“Like many women, she would always find it easier to feel for a male (except, of course, her husband, against whom she bore innumerable,…

— Sigrid Nunez

“She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.”

— Alice Hoffman

“Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair.”

— Karen Armstrong

“I understood that she was more candor & despair than woman. She had refused to be flesh & triumphed. She was freer than I.”

— Antonio Di Benedetto

“If only women were not so fickle and men were not so cruel.”

— Jayne Castel

“Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.”

— Charles Bukowski

“She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.”

— John Irving

“Women hoped harder than men, he thought, sometimes hard enough to change the outcome of things.”

— Jo-Ann Mapson