A woman must marry the man who loves her, but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

No man can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

There should be no such thing as a class of females vulgarized by the necessity of finding daily amusement.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

Someday the man you have loved, the woman you have loved, may find somebody else. It is simply human to be happy — but your woman is happy with somebody else. It does not make any difference whether she is happy with you or happy with somebody else, she is happy. And if you love her so much, how can you destroy her happiness? A

In other words...you can't be a misogynist and expect women to appreciate you.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

No young woman should be placed in circumstances such as to make marriage an only refuge from poverty or dependence upon her friends or a life of ennui

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

I was happy, but I am now in possession of knowledge that this is wrong. Happiness isn't so bad for a woman. She gets fatter, she gets older, she could lie down, nuzzling a regiment of men and little kids, she could just die of the pleasure. But men are different, they have to own money, or they have to be famous, or everybody on the block has too look up to them from the cellar stairs.