Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
Interpretation
Highly intelligent women may struggle to find partners due to their inability to take men's conversations seriously.
H. L. Mencken's quote suggests that as women become more intelligent, they may become less compatible with traditional expectations of relationships. Their heightened awareness and critical thinking capabilities could lead to a disconnect with potential partners, as they might find themselves unable to respect or engage with the perspectives offered by less intelligent men.
In practice
During a panel discussion on gender and intelligence.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
If you are open with someone, he will be open with you. If you want love from someone, give your love to him. If you want kind and sympathetic behavior from someone, be kind and sympathetic to him.
Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.
It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.
Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
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