“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
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James Thurber
(1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Darlings at the Top of the Stairs", Lanterns & Lances (1961); previously appeared in The Queen and in Harper's Magazine.
From Lanterns and Lances
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.”
Dorothy Parker
(1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
A similar line was later used by Ira Gershwin in "The Saga of Jenny" in Lady in the Dark (1942): "In 27 languages she couldn't say no."
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Source: While Rome Burns
“Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.”
Camille Paglia
(1947) American writer
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 43
“The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.”
Book VII, 1335a.27
Politics
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
Robert Frost
(1874–1963) American poet
Variant: A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.