Quotes about women

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“I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm.”

“I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.”

“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”

“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.”

“Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy."
He gave me a mournful look. "I'm afraid that'll happen with or without clothes, my dear.”

“Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.”

“I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.” He closed his eyes and laughed. “And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women’s Liberation Movement’s list of things not to say to a modern woman.”

“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”

“When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.”

“Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”

“Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.”

“I've mastered many things in my life. Navigating the strets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms…”

“Do you know how much women loathe it when guys think every show of negative emotion is tied to our menstrual cycle, like we're sheep or something?”

“He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.”

“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.”

“I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.”

“Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last.”

“Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”

“Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.”

“Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!”

“Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.”

“I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.”

“Women? Women are like… thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.”

“Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.”

“Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters.”

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”

“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”

“Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human.”

“To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.”

“I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.”

“Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.”

“Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.”

“The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.”

“All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.”

“As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”

“I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.”

“Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.”

“Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.”

“Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.”

“Miss," she gasped, and then her eyes went toWill. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house.
"Oh, dear," said Tessa.
"I have that effect on women," Will said.”

“Why didn’t you talk about whether women are funny or not?

I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn’t.”

“Some women attract desire. Others do not.”

“That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.”

“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”

“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”

“Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.”

“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”

“What I don't understand is how women can pour hot wax on their bodies, let it dry, then rip out every single hair by its root and still be scared of spiders.”

“Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.”

“There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..”

“Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.”

“CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.”

“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud”

“The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.”

“The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.”

“To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”

“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”

“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”

“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”

“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”

“Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.”

“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”

“I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.”

“I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.”

“Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.”

“Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just as the Prophet Muhammad decided centuries ago.”

“She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.

I do have a knack for finding great women.”

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”

“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”

“Only cowards torture women.”

“Can't any of us stand up to those women?"

"Nope," said at least three men in unison.”

“Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.”

“I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.”

“…women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.”

“human relationships simply aren't
durable.
I think back to the women in
my life.
they seem non-existent.”

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men — they are far superior and always have been.”

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”

“There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.”

“Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage”

“In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”

“That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.”

“I imagine the earth when I am no more:
Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley.
Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born,
Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.”

“… women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps… they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.”

“I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.”

“I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.”

“Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off”

“Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.”

“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”

“Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!”

“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”

“A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”

“That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.”

“Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.”

“What editors are obliged to appear to say thatwant from women is actually what theirwant from women.”

“My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.”

“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”