Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

What is woman?-only one of Nature's agreeable blunders.

Women never use their intelligence-except when they need to prop up their intuition.

Women are most fascinating between the age of thirty-five and forty after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

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