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Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Ben Jonson The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616)
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears;
Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly
Raises the spirits, and charms our ears.
Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not.
When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.
An attractive woman likes feminine company until she's twenty, and after she's twenty-five.
Most women would like to dress imaginatively, but they glare at any woman who does.
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
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