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Behind every succesful man there is a woman

Posted by Smokey Stover on November 19, 2006

In Reply to: Behind every succesful man there is a woman posted by ESC on November 19, 2006

: : Behind every succesful man there is a woman-Who did coin this statement and why? Secondly consider the folowing:-In front of every successful man there is a woman (consider mother),or behind a successful man there is a sucessful woman-Which one of hese are true?

: This is all I have on the above:

: BEHIND EVERY GREAT MAN THERE IS A GREAT WOMAN - "Men often owe their success to women. It's women that make them tick. The word 'great' may be replaced by 'good,' 'successful,' etc. The proverb is listed in the 1992 A Dictionary of American Proverbs by Wolfgang Mieder et al." From Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996). The reference cited says that the "recorded distribution" is Mississippi. Meaning the "oral source" or sources for the proverb is from that state. A Dictionary of American Proverbs edited by Wolfgang Mieder & Others (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1992).

The way I heard it was, "Behind every great man there's a woman telling him he's wrong."
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