“(...) the easiest to conquer were also more worthy of it, because women have better intuition than men for the love affinity.”

“Women are generally more intuitive about reading the faces of others but they are also easier to read (by both men and women). This is because women tend to be more emotionally expressive.”

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”

“On average, women are better liars than men. But the best liars are men, because politicians are still predominantly men.
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“Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things - enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which.”