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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Barbara De Angelis

My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses.. wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ! My wife was the VERY LAST woman to join the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses!

John C Lehman

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Marcel Archard

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Denis Diderot

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

Norman Douglas

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men—bring them softness, teach them how to cry. -Joan Baez.

Joan Baez

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Lin Yü-tang

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

Linda Grant

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Jerry Brown

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Julie Burchill

In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

Robert Briffault

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

Matt Anonymous

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Matt Anonymous

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.

Johnny Cher

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

Mary Astell

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Francis Bacon

Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.

John Anonymous

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Giovanni Boccaccio

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

I married beneath me. All women do.

Coty Perfume Cher

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.

Charles Churchill

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

George Colman ("The Younger")

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

William Shakespeare

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