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  • The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
    * Henry Adams


  • The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
    * Heywood Broun


  • Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
    * Erica Jong


  • Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
    * Erica Jong


  • Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself--like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
    * Jean Kerr


  • The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
    * D. H. Lawrence


  • I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
    * Phyllis McGinley


  • Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
    * H. L. Mencken


  • Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
    * Kate Millett


  • Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
    * Christopher Morley


  • Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.
    * Erin Pizzey


  • When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
    * George Santayana


  • Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
    * Oscar Wilde


  • Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.
    * Oscar Wilde