Quotes about woman

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“You would make a very ugly woman"
"I would not. I would be stunning”

“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

“He said “woman” in the same way I’d say “Mmmmm, yummy chocolate” after waking up from hunger pains and finding a Hershey bar in an empty refrigerator.”

“if you get married they think you're
finished
and if you are without a woman they think you're
incomplete.”

“There's in my mind a…
turbulent moon-ridden girl

or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers

and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs

but she is not kind.”

“If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.”

“The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman?

"Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.”

“There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba”

“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”

“I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.”

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

“The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”

“I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)”

“For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me.
Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.”

“Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”

“It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.”

“A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.”

“Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.”

“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.”

“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”

“Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.”

“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”

“Relationship Principle 9
Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more turned on by a woman who cares about her own pleasure as well.”

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

“Woman must come of age by herself…
She must find her true center alone.”

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”

“Why did you say you believed me?"
In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered.
"Because I trust you.”

“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”

“I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from man's and for which man's language was inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored. D. H. Lawrence began to give instinct a language, he tried to escape the clinical, the scientific, which only captures what the body feels.”

“When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.”

“Dear God, woman,"said Will. "Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?”

“It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.”

“I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.”

“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”

“I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.”

“Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy.” – Chloe Traeger”

“What?" Simon looked alarmed. "I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman, for her age.”

“The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.”

“He said 'woman' in the same way I'd say 'Mmmm, yummy chocolate.”

“We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.”

“I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.”

“The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.”

“And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.”

“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.”

“We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.”

“And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.”

“I am woman, hear me roar.”

“A silent man is a thinking man. A silent woman is an angry one …”

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”

“The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed.
"See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.”

“Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.”

“I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.”

“The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.”

“A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.”

“If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.”

“It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.”

“The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.”

“Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.'

Ellen: 'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.”

“Don't talk. Kill it."
That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.”

“It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.”

“Back off, asshole. I haven't had a woman today, so I'm in no mood for this kind of bullshit.”

“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.”

“You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.”

“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.”

“And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.”

“There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.”

“When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.”

“No ale for the girl, Birgit," Aidan said to the woman. "Do we not have milk?"

Regin's face heated. And all the worse, because she would dearly love some milk.”

“Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.”

“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?”

“Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.”

“The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have… excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.”

“You're problem is, you underestimate me because I'm a woman.”

“A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.”

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”

“… choose to believe in your own myth
your own glamour
your own spell
a young woman who does this
(even if she is just pretending)
has everything….”

“Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”

“When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.”

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”

“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”

“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

“Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.”

“I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.”

“You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.”

“What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.”

“He makes a pained sound. "Bloody hell, woman, I think a part of me wants to keep you this way.”

“Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.”

“I loved this woman the way you love… well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.”

“A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.”

“Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.”

“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.”

“BRODIE:

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.”

“There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and woman to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

“A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.”