“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

“The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.”

“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”

“No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.”