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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

J. D. Salinger, "Catcher in the Rye"

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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women merely adored.

Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"

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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain

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A man chases a woman until she catches him.

American proverb

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A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Arnold Haultain

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When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

Ambrose Bierce

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, «Serve all, love one».

Honore de Balzac, "The Lily Of The Valley"

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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Simone de Beauvoir

5

Women are always beautiful.

Ville Valo

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You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Brigham Young

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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

James Thurber

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There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

Vincent Van Gogh

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For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

Amitabh Bachchan

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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

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

George Eliot

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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

John Steinbeck

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If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

Gelett Burgess

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A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim

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