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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
— Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
— Oscar Wilde
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
— George Washington
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.
— Joseph Addison
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
— Washington Irving
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
— Marianne Williamson
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
— Alice Walker
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
— Maya Angelou
Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.
— Seneca
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
— Samuel Johnson
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
— Samuel Johnson
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand... but touches your heart.
— Anonymous