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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
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The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.
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In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
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A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
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No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.
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Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.
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No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.
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It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.
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Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
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At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgement of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.
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When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia — to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnaught, and man from an open raft.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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Reviewing here [in Baltimore] is a hazardous occupation. Once I spoke harshly of an eminent American novelist, and he retaliated by telling a very charming woman that I was non compos penis. In time she came to laugh at him as a liar.
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The proof of an idea is not to be sought in the soundness of the man fathering it, but in the soundness of the idea itself. One asks of a pudding, not if the cook who offers it is a good woman, but if the pudding itself is good.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
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Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. Three proofs of His humor: democracy, hay fever, any fat woman.
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A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence, it is almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening [to men] without snickering.
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Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.
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The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
Mary McCarthy
H. L. Mencken
Born:
September 12, 1880
Died:
January 29, 1956
(aged 75)
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