A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

It’s so hard for women — even nice women — to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.

Les femmes peuvent moins surmonter leur coquetterie que leur passion.

Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it.

Women who seek to be equal with men, lack ambition.

It is discouraging to find a woman who knows much about theoretical chemistry, and who cannot properly wash and iron a shirt.

A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman's brain... All affectation of knowledge beyond what is merely domestic, renders them vain, conceited and pretending.

Although she would sooner have given up thinking than eating, she resented being pushed into depriving herself of either.

few things enrage, confuse, and repulse audiences more than the suggestion that the primary visual purpose of a woman’s body is not the pleasure of men.

Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!

In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

I'm not going to act the lady among you, for fear I should starve .

Ese es el defecto de las mujeres decentes de estas tierras. ¡No hablar! No hablamos y tenemos que hablar.