All women are rivals.

Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.

Women only want a man to grant; for of course they always ask.

It’s the battle of the masculine men and the feminine women vs the masculine women and the feminine men.

After all, women feign interest in men all the time to better their positions.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.

Beneath the hundred thousand women of the elite are a million middle-class women, miserable because they are not of the elite, and trying to appear of it in public; and beneath them, in turn, are five million farmers' wives reading 'fashion papers' and trimming bonnets, and shop-girls and serving-maids selling themselves into brothels for cheap jewelry and imitation seal-skin robes. And then consider that, added to this competition in display, you have, like oil on the flames, a whole system of competition in selling! You have manufacturers contriving tens of thousands of catchpenny devices, storekeepers displaying them, and newspapers and magazines filled up with advertisements of them!

The woman wants to dominate, the man wants to be dominated[.]

When women take their education and their abilities seriously and put them to use, ultimately they have to compete with men. It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.