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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the read more
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that read more
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does read more
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol read more
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. read more
They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the read more
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
