
“I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.”
Interview with Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan in (November 2003).
2000s
Act II
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)
“I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.”
Interview with Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan in (November 2003).
2000s
How to... Love, Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life’s Smaller Challenges (2004).
“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”
“I love women who don't let themselves be tamed. Those who scratch and bite, but know how to love.”
Original: Adoro le donne che non si lasciano domare. Quelle che graffiano e mordono, ma sanno amare.
Source: prevale.net
From a letter to Harold Preece (c. December 1928)
Letters
Context: I could name all day, those women I deem great in Greece alone and the records would scarcely be complete. And what of Joan of Arc and Emma Goldman? Kate Richards O’Hare and Sarah Bernhardt? Katherine the Great and Elizabeth Barrett Browning? H. D. and Sara Teasdale? Isibella of Spain who pawned her gems that Columbus might sail, and Edna St. Vincent Millay? And that queen, Marie, I think her name was, of some small province - Hungary I believe - who fought Prussia and Russia so long and so bitterly. And Rome – oh, the list is endless there, also - most of them were glorified harlots but better be a glorified harlot than a drab and moral drone, such as the text books teach us woman should be. Woman have always been the inspiration of men, and just as there are thousands of unknown great ones among men, there have been countless women whose names have never been blazoned across the stars, but who have inspired men on to glory. And as for their fickleness – as long as men write the literature of the world, they will rant about the unfaithfulness of the fair sex, forgetting their own infidelities. Men are as fickle as women. Women have been kept in servitude so long that if they lack in discernment and intellect it is scarcely their fault.