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Image of W. Somerset Maugham
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Women
Image of Margaret Mead
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Women
Image of Margaret Mead
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Women
Image of H. L. Mencken
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Mignon McLaughlin
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Collection: Women
Image of Groucho Marx
A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder, an evil-smelling lip rouge, a peculiar-smelling hair ointment and a half-dozen varieties of body oils, and then have the effrontery to complain of the aroma of a fine dollar cigar.
- Groucho Marx
Collection: Women
Image of Golda Meir
Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
- Golda Meir
Collection: Women
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
Question- Should I loan a small amount of money to a friend? Answer- If you are sure that you can, if necessary, spare both.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Christopher Marlowe
All women are ambitious naturallie
- Christopher Marlowe
Collection: Women
Image of Christopher Marlowe
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
- Christopher Marlowe
Collection: Women
Image of Gina Barreca
If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.
- Gina Barreca
Collection: Women
Image of Groucho Marx
Mrs. Teasdale calls for rescue and Firefly delivers the famous line to his cohorts as they rescue her: "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."
- Groucho Marx
Collection: Women
Image of H. L. Mencken
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
The truly essential bargain between host and guest requires the guest only to respond promptly, show up on time, socialize with other guests, thank the host, write additional thanks and reciprocate. You needn't bring anything.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Herman Melville
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Women
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Women
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Women
Image of James Russell Lowell
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.
- James Russell Lowell
Collection: Women
Image of James Russell Lowell
Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
- James Russell Lowell
Collection: Women
Image of Andre Maurois
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
- Andre Maurois
Collection: Women
Image of Andre Maurois
Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
- Andre Maurois
Collection: Women
Image of H. L. Mencken
Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Women
Image of Andre Maurois
An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
- Andre Maurois
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Cormac McCarthy
It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Women
Image of Marya Mannes
It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.
- Marya Mannes
Collection: Women
Image of James M. Barrie
Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
- James M. Barrie
Collection: Women
Image of Cormac McCarthy
The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Women
Image of Cormac McCarthy
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Women
Image of Margaret Mead
It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Women
Image of Margaret Mead
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Women
Image of Mignon McLaughlin
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Collection: Women
Image of Mignon McLaughlin
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Collection: Women
Image of Herman Melville
Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Women
Image of Andre Maurois
To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.
- Andre Maurois
Collection: Women
Image of Andre Maurois
We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
- Andre Maurois
Collection: Women
Image of George Meredith
Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
- George Meredith
Collection: Women
Image of Mignon McLaughlin
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Collection: Women