6 Ambrose Bierce Quotes on Gender

Ambrose Bierce quotes on gender

3. To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead.

42. Helpmate, n. A wife, or bitter half.

43. Hers, pron. His.

57. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

89. Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

102. The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.