"What would men be without women? Scarce,..." - Quote by John Updike

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”

“Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.”

“Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

“We women adore failures. They lean on us.”

“If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.”

“Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.”

“Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.”

“Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.”