“I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.”

Variant: What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.

1970s, Two Cheers for Capitalism (1978)

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Source: Paris Review interview (1972), p. 254

O caso triste, e dino da memória,
Que do sepulcro os homens desenterra,
Aconteceu da mísera e mesquinha
Que depois de ser morta foi Rainha.

Stanza 118, lines 5–8 (tr. Ezra Pound); of Inês de Castro.
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto III

Source: The Foreshadowing

Variant: A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.

As quoted in "Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer", by Shaoni Bhattacharya, New Scientist (28 February 2003) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3451#.VHpLJzGsWPY.