Quotes about woman
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“Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

Home

“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

Beauty, Thinking

“Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: The Woman in White

Love, Books, Heart

“For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Way

“In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.”

Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur

World, Home

“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”

Zadie Smith (1975) British writer

“Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

God, Beauty, Lovers

“When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.”

Laurie Anderson (1947) American musician

“My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

Women, Men, Problem

“I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born… in order to become the world's strongest shinobi… an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me…”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Life, World

“I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.”

Trenton Lee Stewart (1970) Novelist

“I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.”

Loretta Chase (1949) American writer

Source: Mr. Impossible

Love

“Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Question

“Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

The Man in Bogota

Question

“No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.”

Naomi Wolf (1962) American writer

Beauty, Problem, Appearance, Personality

“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”

Mary Elizabeth Braddon book Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

Tea

“You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Feeling

“There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Way, Madness

“Before sex, a man isn't thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn't.”

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

Sex, Thinking

“Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.”

Anthony Trollope book He Knew He Was Right

Source: He Knew He Was Right

“Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears." Saiman”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Women, Men

“Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

Money, Truth

“No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.”

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

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

Love, Money

“Mmmm, Kate, the Chief of Security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body then the woman who owns it?"
"Curran, I will punch you.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Gifts

“sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“Well alright then," His eyes glittered. "I get my kicks whipping woman I have sex with and you're next on my list. Now I'm going to take a shower.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

Sex

“It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.”

Maya Angelou book Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1938) American historian

Source: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Love, Happiness, Understanding

“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

God, Smile, Heart

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Love, Way, Feeling, Suffering

“a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Pleasure, Lovers, Thinking

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

Smile, Heart

“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

Hell, Drink, Wine, Time

“The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.”

Flannery O’Connor book The Complete Stories

Source: The Complete Stories

Tree

“Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Love

“Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?"
"I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks."
"All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: This Heart of Mine

Women, Personality

“I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.”

Wes Anderson (1969) American filmmaker

Source: The Royal Tenenbaums

Loss

“No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book, or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.”

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

Alcohol, Books, Music, Painting

“I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch book Venus in Furs

Source: Venus in Furs

Love, Smile, Passion

“Without a doubt… the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Rainshadow Road

Cars, Parting

“A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.”

Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)

Intelligence

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

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

Source: My Story

Love, World, Strong

“I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief," the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat.

Kat raised her eyebrows and whispered, "I'd like to meet one of those, too.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.”

Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer

Source: Wicked Intentions

Pain, Feeling, Soul, Hurt

“I am a woman, hear me roar," I said.
Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped”

Charlaine Harris book From Dead to Worse

Source: From Dead to Worse

“Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Attitude

Time, Dead

“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

Marriage

“Any woman whose I. Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

Beauty, Bird, Sense, Singing

“I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did youto the King?”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Men, Horse

“Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

“This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place… and the world waits while she powders her nose.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

World, Chance, Waiting

“You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Life, Death

“Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end… and knowing there’s so much worth saving.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Way

“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

Source: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

“When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Life

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Daughters

“If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

World, Thinking

“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”

Tracy Chevalier (1962) American writer

Source: Girl With A Pearl Earring

Life, Beauty, Way, Light

“(As she entered the main room, Syn turned around in his chair and almost fell out of it as he scanned her body. He cleared his throat and cut an appreciative look to Nykyrian.)
Dayum…woman be hot. (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

“Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Source: Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott

“Just like any woman,… we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Children, Art

“Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Light, Housing

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Peace, Peaceful

“Oh no. Hell no. I'm not asking Ma for one of her bras. That's just… wrong."… "Your woman. You do it."…" You go. We'll pay for your therapy later.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: No Place to Run

Hell

“I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Dreams, Feeling, Girl

“Death,
I need my little addiction to you.
need that tiny voice who,
even as I rise from the sea,
all woman, all there,
says kill me, kill me.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

Death, Sea

“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: The Woman in White

Patience

“He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Life, Women, Men, God

“I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

Women, Hate, Boy

“I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind…”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

“Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really… slow.

-Grabrielle”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Idea

“What is he doing here?" Curran growled.
"He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade.
"Tough luck. You're mine.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Idea

“I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Beauty and Sadness

Source: Beauty and Sadness

Love

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”

Anne Rice The Witching Hour

Source: The Witching Hour (1990)

Books, Reading

“The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Happiness

“Relationship Principle 3
He doesn't marry a woman who is perfect. He marries the woman who is interesting.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

Perfection

“Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Change

“You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood"
~Violence(Maddox)”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Chance

“If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work.”

Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer

Guy, Wedding

“Relationship Principle 1
In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Volume 1 [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 336 https://books.google.com/books?id=rszxUvpszaMC&pg=PA336) <br class="br">Also in The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters ( p. 224 https://books.google.com/books?id=T0AABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA224) <br class="br">Source: The Woman in White (1859)

Time

“Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Men, Age, Personality

“For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

Feeling, Thinking, Heart