“ Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. Oscar Wilde
“ Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one’s perceptions, half-way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh? Or did she lock up within her some sec… Virginia Woolf
“ There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why. Terry Tempest Williams
“ There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life, said Spider. These things are wine, women and song...Curry’s nice too pointed out Fat C… Neil Gaiman
“ The women you've slept with, the ones you never did but primed for a future encounter, the ones who seemed interested but then suddenly stopped texting: Unless you do something horribly wrong, they ne… Neil Strauss
“ The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people of London. They are so deeply afraid of her that they took the risk to dishonor th… Philippa Gregory
“ The discovery of her life was that she herself didn't actually need money, apart from a little cash for those relationships with taxi drivers and officials of the Great Western Railway which can only… Elizabeth Ironside
“ She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. Stephen King
“ She aint worth it. None of em are. He didnt answer for a while. Then he said: Yes they are. Cormac McCarthy
“ Pulling away, I realized I had no place to go and nothing I wanted to do except satisfy my curiosity about a woman who was coming on like gangbusters and a big load of grief. James Ellroy
“ Only a man can see in the face of a woman the girl she was. It is a secret which can be revealed only to a particular man, and, then, only at his insistence. But men have no secrets, except from women… James Baldwin
“ I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out there all the time – look at Larry King, for God's sake. He looks like someone's talking underwear. Wh… John Scalzi
“ I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths. Bram Stoker
“ I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led… W. Somerset Maugham
“ I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He looked at her and tried to discover behind her lascivious expression the familiar features that he loved tenderly. It was as if he were looking at two images through the same lens, at two images su… Milan Kundera
“ From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men. Barbara Kingsolver
“ For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake. Milan Kundera
“ Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd… Philippa Gregory
“ Even when I worked in that world, I still wanted love so strong that the man would have no interest in another woman. Maybe you will always be incapable of giving that kind of love. You tell me I want… Amy Tan
