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- Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
- Lady Duff-Gordon (1863 - 1935)
- The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
- Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
- Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
- A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
- Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.
- Anonymous, O Magazine, The Shy Girl's Guide to Sex, February 2003
- You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
- Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
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