Quotes about woman
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“A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Source: The Hour I First Believed

“Your woman wears underwear out in public,”
Sabin said. “Must be nice. How’d you manage that
little miracle?”
“Only the Deity knows.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Surrender

“I know this woman.”
“Who the hell is she?”
He stared both his brothers down. “She’s mine.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: No Place to Run

Hell

“I'm not giving you any options here. We're doing this, Eva. Enjoy your last remaining hours as a single woman.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

“Could you please put this--could you all put these--could you get dressed, please?"
The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me. "We are as the Goddess requires."
"The Goddess requires you to be naked on my lawn?”

Kelley Armstrong book Dime Store Magic

Source: Dime Store Magic

Smile

“I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.”

Michel Faber (1960) novelist

“think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Thinking

“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Attributed in La Abogada newsletter, Vol. 3 (1967) by International Federation of Women Lawyers, p. 5
1960s

Time

“For a woman who can handle herself so well in a fight, I can’t believe you got taken out by a defenseless doorjamb. (Ravyn)
Given the size of my goose egg, I would argue the defenseless part. That doorjamb has a mean left hook.(Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Fight, Parting

“Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything… I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

Life, Time, Waiting

“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).

Sex

“Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre," Tessa pointed out.
"No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?"
"You would make a very ugly woman."
"I would not. I would be stunning.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Girl

“The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Way

“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Time, Success

“Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life."

She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.”

Georgette Heyer book These Old Shades

Source: These Old Shades

Life, Smile, Tear

“A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.”

John Berger book Ways of Seeing

Source: Ways of Seeing (1972)
Context: According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome, the social presence of a woman is different in kind from that of a man... A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you... By contrast, a woman's presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her. (p. 45-46)

“Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.”

Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist

Books, Intelligence, Courage, Understanding

“Gods, woman," William said. "Your voice is like death. Can you shut it until I leave the room? Please. Seriously, you're like the one woman in the world Ito resist." -Page 271”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Pleasure

Death, God, World

“When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Life

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Love, Life, Girl, Problem

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Clothes

“The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.”

Anne Rice book Servant of the Bones

Source: Servant of the Bones

Angels, Help

“It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to.
--Polgara”

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

Source: The Seeress of Kell

“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

Love, Memory

“The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the links

Source: The Murder on the Links

Love, Forgiveness, Heart

“Dancing was the only activity he enjoyed with a woman, and he regretted that court dancing was no longer in vogue. If you want to bed a woman, do it in the bedroom. If you want to seduce her, do it in the dance.”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Daughter of the Blood

Dance

“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”

Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Beauty, Beauty

“I was my own woman.
The next step was to find the proper sort of man.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

God

“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 222

Beauty

“He was the kind of guy that made a woman want to rip his shirt open and watch the buttons scatter along with her inhibitions.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Guy

“If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.”

Sena Jeter Naslund (1942) American writer

Source: Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

Life, Suffering, Time, Dead

“There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Case of Identity

Source: A Case of Identity

“No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.”

Michael Cadnum (1949) American writer

God

“Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;
And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair;
And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

Variant: Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
Source: America for Me (1909), Lines 9-12.

Dreams, Home, Flowers, Study

“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XV: Hester and Pearl

Men, Passion, Heart

“Sir Impey Biggs: Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Clouds of Witness

Source: Clouds of Witness (1926)

Time

“Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?”

Andy Stanley (1958) American Christian minister

Source: Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You

Life, People, Question

“I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?

“I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble."

"Gosh, I'm sorry about that. I knew it was boring between you two, but not that bad.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Call Me Irresistible

“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”

Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches

Women, Men, Soul, History

“A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.”

Agatha Christie book Murder in Mesopotamia

Source: Murder in Mesopotamia

Lie, Imagination

“Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,
she slowly closed out of sight,
and she was the woman I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Source: Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt

Love, Dreams, Silence, Time

“The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.”

James E. Talmage (1862–1933) American Mormon leader

Source: Jesus the Christ

World, Christ

“She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence… they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good…”

Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

Source: A Company of Swans

Beauty, Intelligence, Thinking, Passion

“A beautiful woman can make herself
look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Beauty

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?”

Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano

Beauty, Hope, Drink, Understanding

“There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Source: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Women, Men

“I think every woman should have a blowtorch.”

Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef

Thinking

“I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Fear

“There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkspell

Love, Men

“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

Source: A Spy in the House of Love (1954)

Love

“Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

God, Way, Failure, Reading

“The woman said something to Roman. He stopped, turned to her, and shook his staff.
She crossed her arms. I couldn't see her face, but I read the body language well enough.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Reading

“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

"A Painful Case"
Source: Dubliners (1914)
Context: One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

Love, Friendship

“A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied butby the turbulence that washes over her.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Chicago: City on the Make (1951), Chapter 2, ""Are you a Christian?""
Context: [About Chicago:] It's every man for himself in this hired air. / Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

Love, Parting

“Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.
Sonea: I love you too.”

Trudi Canavan book The High Lord

Source: The High Lord

Love, Thinking

“Your name is Lily Whitney. You are the woman I want at my side night and day. I want you to be the mother of my children someday. I want you for my lover. I want you for the person I turn to when the world gets to be too much.”

Christine Feehan book Shadow Game

Source: Shadow Game

Children, World, Lovers, Personality

“It is far easier for a woman to lead
a blameless life than it is for a man;
all she has to do is to avoid
sexual intercourse like the plague.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Life

“She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Life

“Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Women, People, World, Suffering

“What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

Children, Law, Fight

“Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Beauty, Loss

“The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“As picky as a woman with her shoes,” Abraham grumbled.
“Hey,” I said. “That’s insulting.” I knew plenty of women who were pickier with their guns than they were with their shoes.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Firefight

Women, Shoe

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess on the Brink

Hate, Fish

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Love

“You're a Dark-Hunter."
He kissed her lightly on the lips. "What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Love, Life, Children, Kiss

“Rache! Glad you're… Tink loves a duck!" he said, wings clattering. "It stinks of sex in here. God, woman. I leave you alone for one night, and you're humping the ghost." - Jenks to Rachel”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Love, God, Sex, Night

“Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Night Road

Love, Pain, Learning

“The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

23 July 1827
Table Talk (1821–1834)

“Look at me, Mariam.'
Reluctantly, Mariam did.
Nana said, 'Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Learning, Daughters

“So I'm supposed to believe you're one of those mythical guys who only cares about a woman's personality, and not about the package it comes in?”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

Guy, Personality

“When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Life

“Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

Thom Merrilin
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos

Lovers

“It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage

Marriage, Thinking

“If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.”

Edwidge Danticat book Breath, Eyes, Memory

Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory

“Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Women, Feeling

“A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.”

Stephen King book Four Past Midnight

Source: Four Past Midnight

Love

“Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: The Renegade Hunter

Question, Problem

“Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

Source: The Fiery Cross

Men, Parting

“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum

Time

“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children."

from chapter VIII of Les Miserables”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Children, Girl

“Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Love, Life, Happiness, World

“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”

Simone Weil book Waiting for God

Source: Waiting for God

Beauty

“You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Faith, Beauty

“What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.”

Théophile Gautier book Mademoiselle de Maupin

Source: Mademoiselle de Maupin

Love, Life, Heart, Gratitude

“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

Age, Failure, Thinking, Personality

“If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take time to to tell a man something he's done wrong.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan

World, Time

“More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?”

Leslie Feinberg (1949–2014) activist and author known for authoring Stone Butch Blues

Life, Question

“Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.”

~ Liberty Jones”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Men

“I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charges like kidnapping and rape.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Waiting

“If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

Source: Austenland

“The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.”

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) Novelist, poet, writer, activist

Women, Men, God, Children

“You're an interesting woman."
"Your interest has been duly noted.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”

George Meredith book Diana of the Crossways

Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=pDlxjZ-z-woC&q=%22A+witty+woman+is+a+treasure+a+witty+beauty+is+a+power%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage. <br class="br">Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885)

Beauty, Motivational, For women, Success

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