Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many, a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

A woman’s name should appear in print but twice—when she is married and when she is buried.

We rich Widows are the best Commodity this Country affords.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

I feel there's so much pressure, especially for women, to declare what their life's going to be and what their career is, and are you married yet? Are you single? But you're 30. And girlfriends are so important. You can have a boyfriend or husband when you're 30, but you still need your girlfriends.

The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?