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I am a woman, but I’m not a fool.
And what of natural intelligence I own
Has been filled out with the remembered precepts
My father and the city-elders taught me.
Aristophanes446–386 BCLysistrata (411 BC), spoken by LysistrataIn context
- Intelligence
- Women
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Women
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
- Beauty
- Women
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter XIXIn context
- Truth & Lies
- Women
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Men
“it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter VIIIIn context
A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIn context
- Money
- Women
I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Women
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Love
- Women
“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Love
- Men
I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all⁠—it is very tiresome
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- History
- Women
Find me a man who’s interesting enough to have dinner with and I’ll be happy.
Lauren Bacall1924–2014
- Men
A woman isn’t complete without a man. But where do you find a man⁠—a real man⁠—these days?
Lauren Bacall1924–2014
- Men
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus1913–1989
- Marriage
- Men