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Quotes About Perception

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
~ O Henry
There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive.
~ Demi Moore
I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?
~ Matt Lauer
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.
~ Germaine Greer
One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased.
~ Unknown
Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbours seeing.
~ Unknown
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
~ Kate Millett
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
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
~ Margaret Cho
You never really know a woman until you meet her in court.
~ Norman Mailer
The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived.
~ Unknown
Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
~ Mark Twain
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
~ Paul Klee
Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.
~ Angelina Grimke
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.
~ Robert A Heinlein
The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
~ Unknown
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
~ William Somerset Maugham
Women don't care. We care about nice arms, great eyes, a big di..... I've never once heard a woman say: He had such a big full scrotum.
~ Sex and the City
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
~ Minna Antrim
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
~ Thomas Hardy
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
~ Roseanne Barr
There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
~ Coco Chanel
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
~ Henry James