Linux Men Women

        One evening he spoke.  Sitting at her feet, his face raised to her,
he allowed his soul to be heard.  "My darling, anything you wish, anything
I am, anything I can ever be...  That's what I want to offer you -- not the
things I'll get for you, but the thing in me that will make me able to get
them.  That thing -- a man can't renounce it -- but I want to renounce it -- so
that it will be yours -- so that it will be in your service -- only for you."
        The girl smiled and asked: "Do you think I'm prettier than Maggie
Kelly?"
        He got up.  He said nothing and walked out of the house.  He never
saw that girl again.  Gail Wynand, who prided himself on never needing a
lesson twice, did not fall in love again in the years that followed.
                -- Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"

One girl can be pretty -- but a dozen are only a chorus.
                -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Last Tycoon"

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
                -- Simone de Beauvoir

One man's folly is another man's wife.
                -- Helen Rowland

One should always be in love.  That is the reason one should never marry.
                -- Oscar Wilde

Only two groups of people fall for flattery -- men and women.

        People of all sorts of genders are reporting great difficulty,
these days, in selecting the proper words to refer to those of the female
persuasion.
        "Lady," "woman," and "girl" are all perfectly good words, but
misapplying them can earn one anything from the charge of vulgarity to a good
swift smack.  We are messing here with matters of deference, condescension,
respect, bigotry, and two vague concepts, age and rank.  It is troubling
enough to get straight who is really what.  Those who deliberately misuse
the terms in a misbegotten attempt at flattery are asking for it.
        A woman is any grown-up female person.  A girl is the un-grown-up
version.  If you call a wee thing with chubby cheeks and pink hair ribbons a
"woman," you will probably not get into trouble, and if you do, you will be
able to handle it because she will be under three feet tall.  However, if you
call a grown-up by a child's name for the sake of implying that she has a
youthful body, you are also implying that she has a brain to match.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the
farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than
chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
                -- George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married"

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed.  It is not fair that some men
should be happier than others.
                -- Oscar Wilde

Sally:  C'mon, Ted, all I'm asking you to do is share your feelings
        with me.
Ted:    ALL?  Do you realize what you're asking?  Men aren't trained
        to share.  We're trained to protect ourselves by not
        letting anyone too close.  Good grief, if I go around
        sharing everything with you, you could hang me out to dry.
Sally:  It's called "trust," Ted.
Ted:    "Sharing"?  "Trust"?  You're really asking me to sail into
        uncharted waters here.
                -- Sally Forth