Virginia Woolf on men

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

• Animals
• Women

Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900

• Women

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

Ian Fleming1908–1964

• Sex
• Women