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Don’t marry a man to reform him⁠—that’s what reform schools are for.
Mae West1893–1980
- Marriage
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Mae West1893–1980
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
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
- Marriage
- Women
Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Women
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Family
- Women
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 72
- Women
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 35
- Women
All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others.
Henny Youngman1906–1998