“I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.”

“Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.”

Arthur C. Clarke book The Fountains of Paradise

“Some women have a weakness for shoes… I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“I should think that for one who has tasted the joys of creation, no other pleasure could exist.”

Anton Chekhov The Seagull

“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

“I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“Of all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man's life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth. I am not given to dogmatic judgments in the matter of literary creation, but if I had to make one I could say that Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, and the wisdom expressed in it the most lasting and profound.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

“God's nature is love, and since God loves creation, it follows that what is genuinely given and purposed by that love must acquire some right in relation to the Creator.”

Andrew Linzey (1952) British theologian and divine

“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey