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“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me—and that I've made of myself—as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it”
— Marilyn Monroe
“A woman has the age she deserves. ”
— Coco Chanel
“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
— Coco Chanel
“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.”
— Stendhal
“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ”
— Stendhal
“I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.”
— Stendhal
“ A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.”
— Stendhal
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ”
— Honore de Balzac
“A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.”
— Honore de Balzac
“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”
— Honore de Balzac
“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. ”
— Honore de Balzac
“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. ”
— Honore de Balzac
“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”
— Honore de Balzac
“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”
— Honore de Balzac
“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. ”
— Honore de Balzac
“Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts. ”
— Moliere
“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”
— Lord Byron
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ”
— Lord Byron
“What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”
— Lord Byron
“There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one. ”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water. ”
— Sophocles
“What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? ”
— Sophocles
“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”
— Victor Hugo
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