Helen Rowland語錄

在網上瀏覽一輪, 發現好些有趣的英文語錄都不得不和大家分享. 其中一位著名作家的語錄可謂是女性主義的先驅.

她是Helen Rowland(1875-1950), 一美國記者及作家. 隨意抽出她的精彩語錄都令人會心微笑, 有些還有點共鳴:

There are only two kinds of men - the dead and the deadly.

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

A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and a sympathetic woman gets him.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

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.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

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.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''

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

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

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Helen Rowland也著作過兒童書籍, 如下面這本"The Rubaiyat of a Bachelor"(1915年出版), 可看這個網上版.