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Between a man and a woman both aged fifty there are two full generations, for she might well wed a man in his seventies, and he a girl of twenty.

— Mignon McLaughlin The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

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Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

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Women are good listeners, but it’s a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there’s something specific you want him to do.

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A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.

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When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling.

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Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

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