Clever Woman Quotes

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  The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Clever, Men, Needs

  Plain Tales from the Hills "Three and - An Extra" (1888)

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• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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• The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clever, Self, Males

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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• Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Sex, Women

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• Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

  Adah Isaacs Menken

  Clever, Good Woman

  Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.237, Broadview Press

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• the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

  Marie Corelli

  Clever, Men, Secret

  Marie Corelli (2015). “Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact”, p.366, The Floating Press

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• A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Intuition, Absolute Certainty

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Witty, Clever

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• When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

  Philippa Gregory

  Clever, Men, Want

  Philippa Gregory (2012). “The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Hilarious, Single

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
  A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
  Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man;
  But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
  I never made a mistake in my life;
  At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

  Rudyard Kipling

  Clever, Mistake, Men

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• Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

  Stacy Schiff

  Clever, Years, Dangerous

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• I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

  Marian Keyes

  Clever, Men, Ideas

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• A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Clever, Husband, Women

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• Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.

  Susan Fletcher

  Strong Women, Sex, Clever

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