6 Quotes by H. L. Mencken about women


  • Author H. L. Mencken
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    Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.

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    Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

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    No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

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    It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

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