Quotes about women
women truth-is completeness
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Virginia Woolf
women light female
Let men do their duty and the women will be such wonders; the female lives from the light of the male: see a male's female dependants, you know the man. William Blake
women heart humanity
Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace. Samuel Smiles
women taken maids
All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man. Samuel Richardson
women eye heart
The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
women thinking men
The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
women eye home
Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
women modern-woman bachelors
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
women hair arms
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. Salvador Dali
women dangerous generalization
To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse. Rudolph Valentino
women today hated
I'm here today because I hated everything else. Wanda Sykes
women race woe
In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case. W. S. Gilbert
women flames destroying
Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour. William Congreve
women may reform
Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible. Velupillai Prabhakaran
women moon roots
Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Ursula K. Le Guin
women order law
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
women responsibility rights
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.
women thinking affection
Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection. Robertson Davies
women emotional cobras
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her. Robert E. Howard
women soul naked
Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.
women waiting wait-for-me
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking. Walt Whitman
women successful good-friend
I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement -- they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah ... Sarah Jessica Parker
women mean opportunity
The Hollywood I know has allowed me the opportunity after opportunity to keep doing new things and not send me out to pasture. I don't want to go to pasture. It's cold. I'm allergic to grass. And the cows are mean. Sandra Bullock
women eggs chickens
The egg cackles and lays the chicken. Robin Morgan
women chinese slave
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
women want today
If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out. Roberta Williams
women drawing people
Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no. William Faulkner
women saint villain
Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
women irritation people
I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation. Whoopi Goldberg
women keyboards bed
You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too. Xaviera Hollander
women past history
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. Wilma Mankiller
women men looks
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. Will Rogers
women heart sight
Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack. Rudyard Kipling