I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does read more

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears

Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
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Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;
And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.

All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her.

All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her.

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
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Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their
rudeness,
Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the
cock is silent.
[Fr., read more

It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the
cock is silent.
[Fr., C'est chose qui moult me deplaist,
Quand poule parle et coq se taist.]