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H. L. Mencken on Women

1880–1956 United States

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On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

A Little Book in C Major (1916)

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia — to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Prejudices, First Series (1919)

Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.

A Little Book in C Major (1916)

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

Misogynist — A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

When women kiss, it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.

A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

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