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17. How a little love and good company improves a woman! (George
Fatquhar (1678-707), English dramatist).
18. A wife is not an instrument that can be hung against the wall
when you have played on it (Russian proverb).
19. I love men like some people like good food or wine (Germaine
Greer (born 1939), Australian feminist).
20. The only problem with women is men (Kathie Sarachild,
contemporary American feminist).
21. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to
play the violin (Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), French writer).
22. The intelligence of woman is inferior to that of man, and every
woman who tries to deny it proves it (Countess Diane of Poitiers
(1499-1566), mistress of Henry II of France).
23. …no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never
have anything to say, but the say it charmingly. Women represent
the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the
triumph of mind over morals (O.Wilde, English writer).
24. I find that, ultimately, there are only two kinds of women, the
plain and the coloured. The plain women are very useful… The
other women are very charming. They commit one mistake,
however. They paint in order to try and look young… As long as
a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she
is perfectly satisfied. As for conversation, there are only five
women in London worth talking to, and two of these can't be
admitted into decent society (O.Wilde, English writer).
25. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are
curious: both are disappointed (O.Wilde, English writer).
26. One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never
marry (O. Wilde, English writer).
27. In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men
enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only
women (Theidor Reik).
28. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty
(Rudyard Kipling, English writer).
29. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, it's woman's whole
existence (Byron, English writer).
30. Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility.
We are not their inferiors either, or even their superiors. We are
quite simply different races (Phyllis McGinley).

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