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Quips & Quotes on Women
Girls, allegedly so timorous and lacking in confidence, now outnumber
boys in student government, in honor societies, on school newspapers,
and even in debating clubs.
- Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys
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"Women should be obscene and not heard."
- Groucho Marx
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A woman phoned the dry cleaners saying that the designer label
was missing from her dress's neckband. Assuring her that they
would look for it, the owner spent the whole afternoon searching
the shop. Finally, he found the label in a trash bin. He cleaned
and pressed it, and dropped it off at the customer's home. "Oh,
thank you," she gushed. "I'm having a garage sale tomorrow and
I can always charge a few dollars more for a dress with a label
on it."
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"Anheuser-Busch announced they are coming out with low-carb beer
called "Ultra" which is aimed at the diet-conscious beer drinker.
Diet-conscious beer drinker...aren't those called women?"
- Jay Leno
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"I don't know why a woman would be ticked off if you gave her
a 56-piece socket-wrench set with a 72-tooth reversible ratchet,
but thrilled if you give her a tiny, very expensive vial of liquid
with a name like 'L'essence de Nooquie Eau de Parfum de Cologne
de Toilette,' which, to the naked male nostril, does not smell
any better than a stick of Juicy Fruit. All I'm saying is that
this is the kind of thing women want."
- Dave Barry
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"Because a man is unfaithful to you is no reason to leave him.
You should stay with him and make sure the rest of his life is
a living hell."
- Roseanne Barr
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- Women's Quote of the Day: "Men are like fine wine. They all
start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and
keep them in the dark until they mature into something with
which you'd like to have dinner with."
- Men's Counter-Quote of the Day: "Women are like fine wine.
They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind
and then turn full-bodied with age until they go all sour and
vinegary and give you a headache."
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One of the single girls in the office came in one morning and
began passing out cigars and candy, both tied with blue ribbons.
When asked what the occasion was, she proudly displayed a diamond
solitaire on her left ring finger. "It's a boy," she announced,
"six feet tall, 178 pounds!"
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In the beginning, God created the earth and rested. Then God
created Man and rested. Then God created Woman. Since then, neither
God nor Man has rested.
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The neighbor dropped in on a friend and found her sitting at
the kitchen table, staring blankly at a half-empty cup of coffee;
her three kids squabbling loudly in the other room. "What's wrong,
Marge?" she asked. Marge told her that she had "morning sickness".
Surprised the neighbor said, "I didn't even know you were pregnant."
- "I'm not," the harried woman replied. "I'm just damn sick of
mornings."
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Watching her mother as she tried on her new mink coat, the daughter
protested: "Mom, do you realize some poor, dumb beast suffered
so you could have that coat?" Her mother glared back at her and
said, "Don't you dare talk about your father that way!"
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Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
- Groucho Marx
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