Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets? - Kate Chopin A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. - Virginia Woolf A woman knows a skirt-chaser. - Alveda King A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once. - Barbara Kingsolver Roscoe and his friends are studying the heat of the fire and the level of oil in t...