WOMEN QUOTES III

quotations about women

Women quote

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

attributed, Woman's Day, August 2011

Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt


I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch


Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.

JOHN BERGER

Ways of Seeing

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Most women are not so young as they are painted.

MAX BEERBOHM

A Defence of Cosmetics

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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

OSCAR WILDE

A Woman of No Importance

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Women are more than freestanding uteruses.

PHOEBE MALTZ BOVY

New Republic, February 8, 2016


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

interview, BBC, December 13, 2005


A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tags: Tennessee Williams


I seen a pretty woman in a red dress ... And then I seen her take it off. What else is there?

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

BARBRA STREISAND

People Magazine, May 31, 1993

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[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.

EDNA FERBER

"Sun Dried"

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I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Women could be trying at times, but they often brought warmth and pleasure to a man's fire.

JEAN M. AUEL

The Clan of the Cave Bear

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Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Women men want to sleep with always win when men are making the decisions.

RITA RUDNER

Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel

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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

SAMUEL SMILES

Character

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Every world has faults
This one has too many
Unattainable Female Objects.

DAVID JONATHAN NEWMAN

"U.F.O.", The Light Looks Another Way

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Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

JOHN GRAY

Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus

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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

JOHN STEINBECK

East of Eden

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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.

WILLIAM CONGREVE

Love for Love

Tags: William Congreve