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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

Jilly Cooper

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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

Margo Kaufman

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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Erma Bombeck

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

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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.

Gloria Steinem

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For some reason, I'm supposed to be a large woman. If you continue to fight it, it's like treading water in the Atlantic.

Kathy Kinney

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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Sylvia Plath

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The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

Gwyneth Paltrow

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Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night?s sleep, and you can?t settle anything until morning anyway.

Rose Kennedy

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Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

Maryon Pearson

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Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. (All About Eve)

Joseph P. Mankiewicz

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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

Bella Abzug

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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Billy Crystal

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Men look at women the way men look at cars. Everyone looks at Ferraris. Now and then we like a pickup truck, and we all buy station wagons.

Tim Allen

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My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

Tim Allen

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity... Women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What they like is to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

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What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.

Cindy Gardner

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Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

Andy Gibb

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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

P. G. Wodehouse

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Wives don't want to hear what husbands think. Wives want to hear what they themselves think, but in a deeper voice.

Bill Cosby

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God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Robin Williams

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Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

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I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

Madeleine Albright

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In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

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