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Prattle
OF THE
SEXES

 

Men can never experience the pain of childbirth. They can if you hit them in the goolies for 14 hours.

Jo Brand

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WIVES ARE YOUNG MEN’S MISTRESSES; COMPANIONS FOR MIDDLE AGE; AND OLD MEN’S NURSES.

Francis Bacon

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

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SURE MEN WERE BORN TO LIE, AND WOMEN TO BELIEVE THEM!

John Gay

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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

John Berger

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SOME OF MY BEST LEADING MEN HAVE BEEN DOGS AND HORSES.

Elizabeth Taylor

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A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

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THE MAN’S DESIRE IS FOR THE WOMAN; BUT THE WOMAN’S DESIRE IS RARELY OTHER THAN FOR THE DESIRE OF THE MAN.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Men are judged as the sum of their parts while women are judged as some of their parts.

Julie Burchill

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I EXPECT THAT WOMAN WILL BE THE LAST THING CIVILISED BY MAN.

George Meredith

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There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn’t bother to change while there are women like that around.

Ann Oakley

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AS USUAL, THERE IS A GREAT WOMAN BEHIND EVERY IDIOT.

John Lennon

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The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg.

Margaret Thatcher

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MEN ARE GENTLE, HONEST AND STRAIGHTFORWARD. WOMEN ARE CONVOLUTED, DECEPTIVE AND DANGEROUS.

Erin Pizzey

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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

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CLEVER AND ATTRACTIVE WOMEN DO NOT WANT TO VOTE; THEY ARE WILLING TO LET MEN GOVERN AS LONG AS THEY GOVERN MEN.

George Bernard Shaw

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A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Samuel Richardson

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MOST OF US WOMEN LIKE MEN, YOU KNOW; IT’S JUST THAT WE FIND THEM A CONSTANT DISAPPOINTMENT.

Clare Short

 

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There is very little difference between men and women in space.

Helen Sharman

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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

Quentin Crisp

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THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IS THAT MEN ARE LUNATICS AND WOMEN ARE IDIOTS.

Rebecca West

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I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.

Stanley Baldwin

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THE SILLIEST WOMAN CAN MANAGE A CLEVER MAN; BUT IT NEEDS A CLEVER WOMAN TO MANAGE A FOOL.

Rudyard Kipling

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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

George Bernard Shaw

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ONE HALF OF THE WORLD CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE PLEASURES OF THE OTHER.

Jane Austen

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I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things.

H. G. Wells

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WOMEN HAVE A MUCH BETTER TIME THAN MEN IN THIS WORLD; THERE ARE FAR MORE THINGS FORBIDDEN TO THEM.

Oscar Wilde