“There’s no reason why women shouldn’t behave like rational beings,” said Simon stolidly. “Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!”
To men a man is but a mind. Who cares A woman absent is a woman dead.
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.
It is a woman's nature to be constant — to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
Sometimes, to please the ladies, we drop down our weapons pretending we are civilized.
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.