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Woman absent is woman dead.
(Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), U.S. author. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906).)
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
(Jo Swerling (b. 1897), U.S. screenwriter, Robert Riskin, dialog, and John Ford. Arthur Ferguson Jones (Edward G. Robinson), The Whole Town's Talking, commenting after indulging in a good cigar and a good bit of whiskey (1935).
Based on the novel by W.R. Burnett.)
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
(Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), British author. Sir Impey Biggs, in Clouds of Witness, ch. 16 (1926).)
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A woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman?
(Blake Edwards (b. 1922), director, screenwriter. Victoria (Julie Andrews), Victor/Victoria, after hearing Toddy's (Robert Preston) scheme of having her pretend to be a female impersonator (1982).)
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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
(Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), U.S. aviator, author. New York Times (July 29, 1928), ch. 12, quoted in Mary S. Lovell, The Sound of Wings (1989).
Of openings for women in aviation.)
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
(Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), Swiss-French writer, wit. Attributed.)
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Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 84, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part, "On Little Old and Young Women," (1883).)
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Was ever woman in this humor wooed?
Was ever woman in this humor won?
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Richard, in Richard III, act 1, sc. 2, l. 227-8.
Having successfully wooed the Lady Anne in presence of her father's corpse.)
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The same emotions in man and woman are nonetheless dissimilar in tempo: consequently, man and woman never cease to misunderstand one another.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 5, p. 89, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Beyond Good and Evil, "Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes," section 85 (1886).)
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when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till she have prevailed?
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British poet. Those petty wrongs that liberty commits (l. 7-8).
InvP. The Unabridged William Shakespeare, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, eds. (1989) Running Press.)
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