Food For Thought...

By: Monica

Since Kelly is the one that (almost) always comes off as a feminist in her writing, I have decided to give her a break and take on the role myself. For today only. To me, men and women truly are equal; I do not believe that one presides over the other. However, I do believe that men are the more sensitive sex. Sure, there are emotional wrecks on both sides but, in general, men tend to be more vulnerable. That is why they are so introverted when it comes to their emotions. While browsing online, I have stumbled upon some extremely witty remarks that, in a way, idolize women. Or, if not idolize, empower. For, even when women are being poked fun at, the butt of the joke is usually their resilience, their confidence, or their domination. Check these out:

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown


The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown


Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire



Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton


The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. ~Ellery Queen

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde


When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. ~Author Unknown

Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble. ~"Doctor Leon," drleons.com

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. ~Ogden Nash

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~Oscar Wilde

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. ~Alexandre Dumas, fils

No woman wants to see herself too clearly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin


Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. ~Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue, 1925

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore. ~Edward Dahlbert


A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb


Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com