H. L. Mencken Quotes About Women
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The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.
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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.
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No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
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Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
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Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
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When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
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Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
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Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.
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A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
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On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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