“Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.”

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

“In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.”

Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) German-American actress and singer

“A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.”

Honoré de Balzac book Physiology of Marriage

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

“Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?”

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël book Corinne

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician