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Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly... There were two women, I won't name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.

It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

A bit of a theory, more a corner of the eye noticing than an airtight argument: in the course of long artistic careers, women are more likely than men to change form and style, Proteus-like.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.