All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Men want to make women happy.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

I love women with attitude.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Women don’t try to use me.