Quotes about woman

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“Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.”

Juliet Marillier book Shadowfell

“I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.”

Ted Dekker (1962) American writer

“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.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

“Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

“Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

“Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Dead woman are not romantic,' Sophie said flatly.

'Okay, she's not dead,' Phin said. 'The bear ate her, and she came her brains out.”

Jennifer Crusie book Welcome to Temptation

“if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.”

Jane Austen book Emma

“You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!”

Thomas Hardy book Jude the Obscure

“Sacred Sibyl!” I cried. “Madam, there is something wrong with your midsection!”

The woman stopped, mystified, and looked down at her hugely swollen belly. “Well, I’m seven months pregnant.”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.”

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher

“I have to.
I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

“Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

“The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.”

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) French writer and film director

“Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

“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.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

“If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian… I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

“Storms, woman,” [Kaladin] said. “I don’t know what to make of you.”
“Preferably not a corpse.”
“I’m surprised someone hasn't already done that.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

“The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

“You are freakishly tall, aren’t you? (Tory)
For a woman wanting my help you are ever determined to insult me. Should I make this as painless as possible and leave now before the die-painfully-you-asshole-prick stuff starts again? (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

“It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, "Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

“You're the only man I know who can have sex with a woman who looks that good and be in this bad a mood ten minutes later. Damn, didn't you know sex is supposed to make you feel better? (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

“Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.”

Patricia A. McKillip (1948) American fantasy writer

“A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

“One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

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

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

“A man is only as old as the woman he feels.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“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.”

Gilda Radner (1946–1989) American comedian

“Groucho: You know I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world?
Woman: Really?
Groucho: No, but I don't mind lying if it gets me somewhere.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“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.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

“There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.”

John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis, just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Skin Trade

“According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular and private hell.”

Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter

“a woman's place is in the kitchen… sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

“I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?"

"At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke.”

Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves

“The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.

Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

“Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”

Jane Austen book Emma

“To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.”

Sister Souljah (1964) American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer

“Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

“Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

“Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

“Maple. Maypole
Catch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
Moon at night.
Willow. Window.
Candlelight.
Fallow farrow.
Ash and oak.
Bide and borrow.
Chimney smoke.
Barrel. Barley.
Stone and stave.
Wind and water.
Misbehave.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

“The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

“Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman.

-Jillian's mother”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman… as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing… [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.”

Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer

“There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ

“If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to end a war, you call Wonder Woman.”

Gail Simone (1974) writer

“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.”

Jay Leno (1950) American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and television host

“Like is an emotion. Emotions”—he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly—“are like holding water. You open your hand, there’s nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.”

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

“Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.”

Terry Goodkind Blood of the Fold

“I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.”

Iris Murdoch book The Red and the Green

“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”

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

“He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

“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).”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.”

Fumiko Enchi book Masks

“And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.”

David Nicholls book One Day

“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”

Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer

“As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.”

Stacy Schiff (1961) American female Author, Pulitzer Prize winner

“A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

“I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

“I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.”

Ann B. Ross American writer

“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love—any love—reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“What possessed ye, woman, to hit me in the heid wi' a fish whilst I was fighting for my life?”

Diana Gabaldon book Drums of Autumn

“A woman who’s lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren’t you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“A womans mistakes are different from a girls”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

“But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.”

Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter

“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.”

Anne Tyler (1941) American novelist

“They say a hundred-and-thirty-pound woman has no chance against an athletic two-hundred-pound man. That's a lie. You just have to make the decision to hurt him and then do it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress…a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

“Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

“Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“…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.”

Judith Martin (1938) American etiquette expert

“Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.”

Khaled Hosseini (1965) novelist

“Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

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

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

“No woman ever hates a man
for being in love with her;
but mainly a woman hates a
man for being her friend.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

“Bluidy hell. Charlie’s seen my woman naked,” he said in a surly tone. “I almost liked him better when I thought he was a machete murderer.”

Kresley Cole American writer

“The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician