
“Every woman should have a purse of her own.”
Variant: Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
“Every woman should have a purse of her own.”
From Essay XX by Michel de Montaigne (translated by Charles Cotton, Macmillan London 1877).
[The Quest for beauty, http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/01/quest/index.html, June 16 2006]
Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Chronicle "Interdit aux hommes" (Forbidden to men), by Doris Veillette-Hamel, Journal Le Nouvelliste, March 24, 1973, page 17.
Chronicle "Forbidden to men", 1973
The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age (1971).
“If a woman does not get love in her life, it is better for her to die.”
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Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 3, Chapter 31, verse 41, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/3/31/41
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights
“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!”
Une femme de quarante ans n'est plus quelque chose que pour les hommes qui l'ont aimée dans sa jeunesse!
Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 23