Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.” CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre

“Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.” ~ James Thurber ~

“To get to a woman’s heart, a man must first use his own.” ~ Mike Dobbertin ~

“Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.” ~ G.K. Chesterton ~

“A man chases a woman until she catches him.” ~ American Proverb ~

“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.” ~ Elbert Hubbard ~

“I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.” ~ Stanley Baldwin ~

“A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery.” ~ Diana Sturm ~

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

“Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.”

~ Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire

“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” ~ Aristotle Onassis ~