Women
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I'm not denying women are foolish.God Almighty made them to match the men.
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One of the hardest things about being girl is having to always answer questions about why it's hard to be a girl.
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Arraigned in what she distinctly calls 'dress', scented, adorned, displayed, she achieves by artifice a sexual differentiation prfounder than any other vertebrate animal.
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The contemporary woman pro of fashion, who sets the tone of accidental intercourse, is a stimulant rather than a companion of man.
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It used to be the convention that women writers should be plain and dowdy. Now we have gone to the other extreme and built them on extravagantly decorative lines.
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My only books were women’s looks
And folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen and that they all fit.
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell that, would tell one anything.
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I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house.
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When once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her body.
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I have never seen a naked woman and the way things were going, I was never likely to. My family owned land.
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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman’s pulse.
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We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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She’s like the old line about justice, not only must be done but must be seen to be done.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages and can’t say no in any of them.
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The thinking man’s crumpet.
[on Joan Bakewell]
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Betty Friedan: Don’t you hate women being treated as a sexual plaything?
Jessica Mitford: But Betty you’re not a plaything. You’re a war toy.
