I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George Eliot

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

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George Eliot

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. Mencken

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
H. L. Mencken

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H. L. Mencken

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
Elizabeth Taylor

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
Chuck Palahniuk

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Golda Meir

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson