Women always have the last word...

One day, Roland my researcher gifted me with sayings about women. If you ask me where I first met Roland, I’d answer, it must have been when the sun was bright or when Venus showed off her most sparkling lights. The truth? In the dustiest areas of the National Archives. He spoke of years past before any living being existed. He told me stories of the Katipunan and the Moros who smoked opium and the horse races in Basilan.

And him about me? "She was taking up her master’s degree on the Samals. Her hands were continuously dirty at the archives. Pening bundles from early morning to late afternoon. A Kleenex box was constantly beside her as she sneezed all the time."

And me, on Roland? Roland was scrawny and his children all thin. Now they’re heavy weights and excelling in school. His wife Edna was a teacher at UST. Now she’s losing her eyesight. He saw all my children grow – marry – and plays now with the grandchildren, clapping his hands, singing the same tune he did to all my five girls. Roland’s helped us eliminate two presidents, witnessed my career and survived through three degrees of research resulting in solving historical riddles achieved through arguments, encouragements and millions of scratch papers, pencils with erasers shaved off, marking pens and tattered books with dog ears all reminding me of Roland’s efficiency and knowledge.

As a graduation gift Roland decided to do something on women again for me. Any similarities I won’t admit. Just laugh, find yourself girl and enjoy this piece… all about women.

• All women don’t repeat rumors. Some originate them.
• The only thing left for science to control are women and the weather.
• Storms are named after women because of their strong determination to swing straight or sway away.
• For every man’s success there’s a woman competing for his job.
• It’s not true that women change their minds frequently. Ask a woman her age and she’ll give the same answer several years later.
• Some women take a man for better or worse. Others for all he has.
• Women don’t stop till they get the answer.
• A woman’s mind is like the moon. No matter how often she changes it, there’s always a man in it.
• Doctors have noted that women’s feet are getting longer. Presumably that’s because they’re trying to fill men’s shoes.
• It’s true that a woman can keep a secret, in circulation!
• Women can do almost everything men can, except listen.
• When a woman suffers in silence, the phone is probably out of order.
• It seems that some women would rather be out of money than out of style.
• A woman’s dress usually stays in style until the next time she goes shopping.
• There are some things that never go out of style. A feminine woman is one of them.
• If a woman could talk out of the two corners of her mouth at the same time, there would be a great deal said on both sides.
• For every woman who makes a fool out of a man, there’s another woman who makes a man out of a fool.
• Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
• A woman feels a man’s love should be like a toothbrush. It shouldn’t be shared.
• A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything more said after that is the beginning of a new argument.
• Many women suffer discomfort because they often buy shoes to fit the occasion instead of the feet.
• Women have the main topic of conversation – how they used to be or how thin they’re gonna be.
• Happy is the man who earns more than what his wife can spend.
• Happy is the woman who can find such a man.
• Many a woman’s final decision is not the last one she makes.
My answer? That said, what would a man do without a woman or women?