Here is a series of rather belittling, sexist sayings courtesy of Albert Pulitzer’s son, Walter, from his 1904 book, A Cynic’s Meditations. Walter dedicated this cute book of femme mockery to his father, who also took great humor in making sport of women. Seeing as how both Pulitzer senior and junior were sexist men… men woke SWJs would incorrectly label misogynistic… perhaps there should be a call to end the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, a woke cancellation, and even a call for all its historical winners to throw their prizes in a pile and burn them. Honest journalism is pretty much dead in America anyway, so don’t stop with canceling Dr. Seuss, Dav Pilkey, and Pepé Le Pew. Let’s cancel Pulitzer, past, present, and future, too!
Society is the mother of – dissension.
Walter Pulitzer, A Cynic’s Meditations
- A woman in need is often a devil indeed.
- A woman’s most happy topic is self; after that some other woman.
- Woman spends half her life deceiving herself – the other half before the mirror. It’s the same thing.
- Deception is the cornerstone of vanity.
- Generally speaking, a woman is – generally speaking.
- The only certain thing about a woman is her uncertainty.
- To many women a man is but like a mark on a slate, to be rubbed off and brought back at will.
- The saying, “Two’s company, three’s a crowd,” must have originated with Adam when the Serpent came on the scene. Somehow, Eve didn’t seem to see it.
- Most women get what they want by saying they don’t want it.
- No plain woman is quite certain she is plain. She is ever waiting for the man to come along who will say it is not so.
- To ask a woman what she means is almost as unwise as to ask her if she has any.
- Faint purse ne’er won fair lady.
- In the female vocabulary, men may come and men may go, but shops go on forever.
- A woman without a past should be happy – but she isn’t.
- It isn’t so much that a woman wouldn’t, but she hates you to think she would.
- Nothing hurts a woman so much as when a man won’t give her the opportunity of saying “No.”
- A widow is never more dangerous than when she tells a youth that she was never really happy in her married life.
- To win a difficult maiden, make love to a widow in her presence.
- When jealousy claims a woman, Love and Hate shake hands.
- A woman is never so happy as when she refuses to forgive.
- In marriage, he who hesitates is bossed.
- Some women agree with their husbands – in name only.
- Home has its use if it even only affords a man a place where he can vent his temper.
- What you call temper in your wife, you call temperament in yourself.
- The Reformer and the Showgirl are alike in that they both are kickers, and both aiming high.
- A man doesn’t know how to live until a woman has taught him, and then it often happens he prefers to live alone.
One touch of merriment makes the whole world – grin.