“Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse.”
Letter to Sir James Fellowes, November 6, 1817; The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (2002) vol. 6, p. 130.
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“Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.”
Les femmes sont extrêmes: elles sont meilleures ou pires que les hommes.
Aphorism 53
Les Caractères (1688), Des Femmes
(J. Hudson Taylor. Fruit Bearing. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).
“Whether Women are better than men, I can say they are certainly no worse.”
Golda Meir Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 442.
“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Fires of Heaven
“In my profession I have learned that women can bear more pain than men.'
'Are you a doctor, sir?”
'No. A shoe repairer.'
Page 123.
Other Peoples Children (1980)
“Better to face the bear than run from it.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
“The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Cross of Lorraine.”
This remark referring to Charles de Gaulle was actually made by General Edward Louis Spears, Churchill's personal representative to the Free French.
Film producer Alexander Korda asked Churchill in 1948 if he had made the remark, he replied
No, I didn't say it; but I'm sorry I didn't, because it was quite witty … and so true!
Quoted in Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century p. 105.
Misattributed
Variant: (Television) If women want time off to bear children, they can't expect to be treated as equals. (Sylvia) Okay, give men time off to bear children.
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 26