“Some men define themselves by women although they appear to believe it is quite the opposite; to believe that it is she, rather than themselves, who is being filed away, tagged, named at last like a quivering cell under a microscope.” — Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights
“By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.” — Edmund Burke, Reflections on The Revolution in France
“The street is noisy and the men and women are not perfect in the technique of their expression as the statues are.” — Pearl S. Buck, The Chinese Novel, Nobel Lecture (1938-12-12)
“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That’s the trouble with women, too.” — Joanna Russ, Existence
“The men who declare that woman is the intellectual inferior of man, do not, and cannot, by offering themselves in evidence, substantiate their declaration.” — Robert G. Ingersoll, Introduction to Helen Hamilton Gardner’s Men, Women and Gods
“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men — not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and — ah, this above all — their conversation.” — Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“Women have a good deal more sober sense than men. But men would be just as sensible if there were no women.” — H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major
“On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.” — H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major
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