The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is "what does a woman want"?
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.
We don't love a woman for what she says, but we like what she says because we love her.
What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
Women can do everything; men can do the rest.
Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.
A woman is always buying something.
Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.
A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Of my two 'handicaps', being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from.
