alike, much
less that men should be ruled by women.
- from Tractatus Politicus by Baruch Spinoza
- Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;
But every woman is at heart a rake.
- Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.
- Girls we love for what they are: Young men for what they promise to
be.
- It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a
man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a
woman.
- She is like a stone on the hilltop, difficult to be moved. Yet when
she is once started she goeth fast and far; no man knoweth her end. She
believeth that ALL men are vain and easy to be flattered. Her heart is
older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason. She
desireth many things, and she is happy till she getteth them. TWO things
she holdeth dear, mystery and mastery.
- A man gets what he wants by acting smart; a woman, by playing dumb.
- Why is it we never hear of a self-made woman?
- Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.
- Fathers compete with their sons, but mothers devour