Strange isn't it? that when a man expresses a conviction fearlessly, he is reported to have made a trenchant and forceful statement, but when a lady speaks thus earnestly, she is reported as a lady who has lost her temper. - Jessie B. Fremont

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. - Jacqueline Kennedy

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband. - Lady Bird Johnson

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe,
She can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby,
She can use her intuition instead of her brain,
But she can't fold a paper in a crowded train. - Phyllis McGinley

Very few people have settled entirely in the country but have grown at length weary of one another. The lady's conversation generally falls into a thousand impertinent effects of idleness, and the gentleman falls in love with his dogs and horses, and out of love with everything else. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. - Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. - Jane Austen, Emma

We shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catch-phrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. 'You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning. - Margaret Thatcher, Speech at Conservative Party Conference 10 Oct. 1980

She walks - the lady of my delight - A shepherdess of sheep. - Alice Meynell

I am parshial [sic] to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it. - Daisy Ashford (written when the author was nine years old)


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