I have been a woman for fifty ...

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
 Jean Giraudoux

Quotes from the same author

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.
 Jean Giraudoux
The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
 Jean Giraudoux
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
 Jean Giraudoux
I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.
 Jean Giraudoux
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.
 Jean Giraudoux