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- A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
- Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
- At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
- Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
- Billy Crystal (1947 - )
- Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks, 1944
- If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
- Elaine Gill
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825 - 1921)
- What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
- Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), Against Interpretation, 1966
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