No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

There were women in the golden age of Greece, called hetaerae, who were celebrated by Socrates and philosophers of his time. Although they existed solely for their own pleasure and that of men, they were respected for their independence of mind and spirit and thought of highly by the Greeks. Single women in today's world can function like hetaerae, learning from many and giving back to whom they will, and for the woman who enjoys such a life, it can be a good one, and one both she and society can be the better for.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

How blest was the created state
Of man and woman, ere they fell,
Compared to our unhappy fate:
We need not fear another hell.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful — provided you get between the right man and the right woman.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw a woman who helps me give birth to myself.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

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.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.