Quotes about women
women flower lovely
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world. Christian Dior
women female trade
The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. Germaine Greer
women struggle order
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
women reality deviousness
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
women home may
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
women hate memorable
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
women addiction generosity
Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
women struggle joy
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
women female remember
After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.
women heart men
A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.
women thinking different
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! Georgette Heyer
women wife firsts
Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after. Herman Melville
women religion speak
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
women perception sentimental
A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman. Henry David Thoreau
women sacrifice feet
When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?
women feelings conversation
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
women talking pleasure
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
women hate inspiration
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. H. L. Mencken
women blue long
Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.] Jean-Jacques Rousseau
women men please
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
women tears addresses
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
women reading book
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
women home needed
Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon. Jennifer Egan
women long-ago civilization
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. Grover Cleveland
women oil hair
A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder, an evil-smelling lip rouge, a peculiar-smelling hair ointment and a half-dozen varieties of body oils, and then have the effrontery to complain of the aroma of a fine dollar cigar. Groucho Marx
women believe overcoming
Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them. Golda Meir
women expression long
Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats. Harriet Lerner
women ocean heart
So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living! Harriet Beecher Stowe
women battle frightening
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. Hugh Grant
women thinking tyrants
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. Hannah Arendt
women masterpiece
Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
women should masterpiece
Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.
women anger class
If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class. Gina Barreca