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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Aristotle384–322 BC
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
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
- Love
- Marriage
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
“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
- Marriage
- Men
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
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
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
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
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband’s side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
Lucille Ball1911–1989Love, Lucy (1996), p. 113
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore1882–1942How to Be a Perennial Juvenile (1941)
- Love
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986The Second Sex (1949), Bk. I, Pt. 2, Ch. 8: Since the French Revolution: the Job and the Vote, p. 133
- Genius
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Annie Besant1847–1933The Freethinker’s Text-Book: Christianity
- Anti-Religion
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 31:10 (KJV)In context
- Virtue