“A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far.”

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”

“What happens if you get scared half to death twice?”

“You take a man half-bad and a woman half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between. That's you [our son].”

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought of half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

“if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman.”

“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement… says heaven and earth in one word… speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.”

“Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.”

“Made in Sheffield, and guaranteed never to fail! Good slicer this is, real good. You can cut a man in half with one of these if you get the stroke right.”