Men get their opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
	Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.	Minna Antrim
Judith Martin		It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities with your help.
Never be intimidated when you deal with men. Curse, don't cry.	Unknown
	It's not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over.	Edna St. Vincent Millay
Catherine the Great		I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
I married beneath me, as all women do.	Lady Nancy Astor
	You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.	Jeannette Rankin
Clara Bow		The more I know about men, the more I like dogs.
That . . . man . . . says women can't have as much rights as man, cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from? . . . From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him	Sojourner Truth
	Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.	Gloria Steinem
Fran Lebowitz		Polite conversation is rarely either.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.	Marie Osmond
	Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.	Shari R. Barr
Wilma Scott Heide		I do not refer to myself as a "housewife" for the reason that I did not marry a house.
Only God is in a position to look down on anyone.	Sarah Brown
	Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose that counts" probably lost.	Martina Navratilova
Judith Martin		If you can't be kind, at least be vague.
Men who treat women as helpless and charming playthings deserve women who treat them as delightful and generous bank accounts.	GQ
	One is not born a woman, one becomes one.	Simone De Beauvoir
Mary Tyler Moore		You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.	Mae West
	I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Barbara Bush		Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well.
The dream of the typical American girl-next-door still doesn't include a good pair of quadriceps.	Maren Seidler, American shot put champion
	God made man, then said, I can do better than that and made woman.	Adele Rogers St. Johns
Mae West		I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.	Shirley Maclaine
	Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.	Unknown
Eleanor Roosevelt		No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If a man does something silly, people say, "Isn't he silly?" If a woman does something silly, people say, "Aren't women silly?"	Doris Day
	Trust in God. She will provide.	Emmeline Pankhurst
Sara Teasdale		No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.	Sylvia Plath
	As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.	Marian Anderson
Annie Dillard		Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to Hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you didn't know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"
It's the rooster that does all the crowing, but it's the hen that delivers the goods.	Ann Richards
	I'm not overweight, I'm just nine inches too short.	Shelley Winters
Elayne Boosler		I do clean up a little. If company is coming, I'll wipe the lipstick off the milk container.
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.	Dorothy Parker
	I don't believe for a second weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that's indecision.	Paula Poundstone
Phyllis Diller		I descended from a very long line my mother foolishly listened to.
How could I possibly overthrow the government when I can't even keep my dog down?	Dorothy Parker
	Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?	Peg Braken
Mae West		When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.	Rebecca West
	Women and elephants never forget.	Dorothy Parker
Julia Child		Whenever you see food beautifully arranged on a plate, you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
One reason I don't drink is I want to know when I'm having a good time.	Lady Nancy Astor
	A long-standing feud between two famous wits, Clare Boothe Luce and Dorothy Parker, was illustrated one evening when both met at the door of a nightclub. Luce motioned Parker through with: "Age before beauty." Parker retorted: "And pearls before swine."	Unknown
Mae West		I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.	Gloria Steinem
	Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.	Erma Bombeck
Catherine II		I praise loudly, I blame softly.