“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953) American novelist
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953) American novelist
“A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far.”
Fannie Hurst (1889–1968) novelist
Source: From speech at the National Conference of Women sponsored by “The New York Times.” https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/07/twice-good/#return-note-437251-1 Beth Blair. Women Will Have New World Status, Miami Daily News, April 27 1943, page 11A, Column 5.
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), Chapter 28
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
I've Been Waiting for You
Song lyrics, Neil Young (1968)
“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Forgiveness: Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) German-American actress and singer
Marlene Dietrich's ABC https://books.google.com/books?id=u7x5UYHMs0IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Marlene+intitle:Dietrich%27s+intitle:abc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv7qiV8cPfAhWinuAKHcZLAWQQ6AEIKjAA#v=snippet&q=forgiveness&f=false (1962)
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Stanza xvii.
One Word More (1855)
Robin Schone (1954) American writer
Source: Scandalous Lovers