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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. -Marge Piercy.

Marge Piercy

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.

Timothy Leary

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.

John Barrymore

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

James G. Frazer

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

Marilyn French

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

Edward Dahlberg

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

Eugenie Clark

They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.

Kate Field

Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay on Top of Me Or I'll Die.' I didn't know what I was gonna do....".

Mary Buckley

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

Poor Jimmy's Almanac

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Madame De Rieux

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Gloria Steinem

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Andrea Dworkin

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Anita Baker

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Quentin Crisp

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Francis H. Bradley

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Hervey Allen

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Jackie Rogers

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Dave Barry

The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce.

Jim Anonymous

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

Anthony Brandt

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

Denis Diderot

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.

Matt Anonymous

A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".

Matt Anonymous

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