Helen Rowland
Helen May Rowland was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a newspaper column in the New York World called "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909), The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor (1915), and A Guide to Men (1922).
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- Washington, D.C.
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"A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor."
"Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast."
"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."
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."
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1875
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Birth1950
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