“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

“When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.”

“It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.”

“He was as young as twenty years allowed, and as old as it could make him.”

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”

“An attractive woman likes feminine company until she's twenty, and after she's twenty-five.”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”

“The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.”