Helen Rowland (/ˈroʊlənd/; 1875–1950) was an American journalist and humorist.
She is often confused with Helen May Rowland, a singer-actress who had a brief radio and recording career in the early 1930s.
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“What a man calls his ‘conscience’ is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ‘misunderstood’ or that he is ‘different’; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a ‘Master of Arts’ and a ‘Doctor of Philosophy’ after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)