Quotes about women
women good-woman treasure
A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
women views world
Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee. Francis Thompson
women two-sides temptation
Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men. Hugh Hefner
women views feminine-beauty
It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine beauty" -- and that men prefer exactly the opposite: voluptuous, well-rounded and undressed. The women's idealization of woman is actually a male counterpart, competing with man in society; man's view of women is far more truly feminine.
women baths judgment
Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide. Horace Walpole
women sometimes enough
I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.
women no-trust men-women
No trust is to be placed in women. Homer
women evil mind
There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.
women race rose
What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.
women memorable feminist
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. Gloria Steinem
women space pedestal
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
women home play
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
women feminist feminism
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
women equality empowering
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
women path equal-rights
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around. Geraldine Ferraro
women jealous wife
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds. J. Paul Getty
women people black
Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. J. K. Rowling
women imagination understood
I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be. H. G. Wells
women differences social
There are no social differences - till women come in.
women sailor capes
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating. H. L. Mencken
women pregnancy science
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 or chemistry.
women love-is hard
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.
women men making-love
Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
women would-be world
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
women hard-times law
Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
women drawing personality
The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture. Gunnar Myrdal
women perfect literature
The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices. Friedrich Nietzsche
women believe heart
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
women science artist
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
women sick bed
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
women boredom people
Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
women forget-you forget
You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!
women forget-you visiting
Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip