Helen Rowland Quotes

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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Helen Rowland

Love, Being Happy, Funny Relationship

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.81, Lulu.com

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The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

Helen Rowland

Sarcastic, Funny Women, Excitement

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A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Helen Rowland

Beautiful, Men, Inspire

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Helen Rowland

Wise, Wisdom, Sassy

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.87, Lulu.com

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True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

Helen Rowland

Love Is, Years, Long

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.49, Lulu.com

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A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

Helen Rowland

Relationship, Heart, Men

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Helen Rowland

Marriage, Kissing, Miracle

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.39, Lulu.com

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A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Helen Rowland

Men, Good Man, Good Woman

Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother!

Helen Rowland

Mother, Sex, Like Her

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.77, Lulu.com

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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Helen Rowland

Marriage, Single, Divorce

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.70, Lulu.com

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Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

Helen Rowland

Love, Funny, Marriage

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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Helen Rowland

Funny, Birthday, Motivation

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A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

Helen Rowland

Inspiration, Men, Making Love

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Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Helen Rowland

Funny, Trust, Husband

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.95, Lulu.com

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Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

Helen Rowland

Love Is, Dinner, Appetite

Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Helen Rowland

Love, Strong Women, Heart

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A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

Helen Rowland

Running, Cat, Men

Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.20, Litres

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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Helen Rowland

Heart, Men, Giving

Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Helen Rowland

Love, Divorce, Literature

A Guide to Men "Divorces" (1922)

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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Helen Rowland

Jest, Wit, Cynic

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.62, Lulu.com

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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Helen Rowland

Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

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Funny, Birthday, Marriage

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.53, Lulu.com

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A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

Helen Rowland

Men, Ideals, Ideal Woman

Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.10, Litres

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A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

Helen Rowland

Men, Married, Forget

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A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

Helen Rowland

Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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Born: 1875
Died: 1950
Occupation: Journalist
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