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How can you say young girls don’t get it? They’re our future. Our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents, they kind of keep the world going.
Harry Stylesborn 1994Interview by Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone (18 April 2017)
- Women
- Youth
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
- Marriage
- Women
If I am sexy, it’s just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.
Sharon Tate1943–1969In response to being called Hollywood’s “New Sex Goddess” in Modern Screen magazine (May 1968)
I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XIIIn context
- Women
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds, delivered at the Royal Albert Hall (May 20, 1965); as quoted in Why Women Should Rule the World, HarperCollins (2008), Dee Dee Myers, p. 227
- Politics
- Women
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939
- Men
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman?
Sojourner Truth1797–1883Speech at the Women’s Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (29 May 1851), in the version Frances Dana Gage published in 1863; the report printed at the time, in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, has no “ain’t I a woman?”
- Race
- Women
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Religion
Familiarity breeds contempt⁠—and children.
Mark Twain1835–1910‘s Notebook (1935)
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Men
- Women
I haven’t been with a woman in nine months.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
Sex is a three-letter word which needs some old-fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning.
?Unattributed
There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex. But there is nothing exactly like it.
?Unattributed
Remember when safe sex meant not getting caught?
?Unattributed
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.
?UnattributedOften credited to Benjamin Franklin
- Women