“There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
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“Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.”
Thom Merrilin
(15 October 1993)

Source: Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

“No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.”
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)

Variant: When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

The Life And Teachings Of Muhammad: Two Lectures by Annie Besant http://hpb.narod.ru/LifeTeachingsOfMuhammadAB.html

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 154.