women

The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat . . . but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.