Gertrude Atherton - Women Quotes

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All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

Gertrude Atherton

When the horrors that men and women make for themselves come into my mind, I go out and look at the solitary peak that towers above the long receding range of mountains at the head of the lake.

Gertrude Atherton

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

Gertrude Atherton

Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others — in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance — they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.

Gertrude Atherton

An ardent feminist, he believed in women taking precisely the same liberties with orthodoxies as men had done since the beginning of time.

Gertrude Atherton

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

Gertrude Atherton