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Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
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
- Men
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
- Forgiveness
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1899)In context
- Age
Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Men
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
- Men
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by Lady BracknellIn context
- Age
I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that. In films I might look glamorous, but I’ve been in hair and make-up for two hours.
Kate Winsletborn 1975Marie Claire, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009
- Beauty
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3
- Beauty
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3
- Education
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 51
- Writing
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
- Men
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4
- Money
- Writing
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
- Men