Robert A. Heinlein - Women Quotes

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Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.

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Here is the wisdom of the ages: Men rule but women decide.

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Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

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Hamilton took a deep breath, let it out, then said, Listen to me. I don't know much about women, and sometimes it seems like I didn't know anything about them. But I'm sure of this—she won't let a little thing like you taking a pot shot at her stand in the way if you ever had any chance with her at all. She'll forgive you.
You don't really mean that, do you? Monroe-Alpha's face was still tragic, but he clutched at the hope.
Certainly I do. Women will forgive anything. With a flash of insight he added, Otherwise the race would have died out long ago.

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Women and cats do as they please, and men and dogs might as well relax to it.

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Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it causes him to wonder if women are necessary. If you always get his breakfast and don't raise controversial issues until after his second cup of coffee, you can get away with murder the rest of the time. They don't notice other odors when they smell bacon.

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Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better — and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

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Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.)

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Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on... as long as the women and children are saved. But if you fail to save the women and children, you've had it, you're done, you're through! You join Tyrannosaurus Rex, one more breed that bilged its final test.

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Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

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Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

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Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

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In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.

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It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

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