WOMEN QUOTES III

quotations about women

Women quote

I could not possibly love one woman, having known the holiness of all women.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Mill on the Floss


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

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

JAMES LAVER

attributed, Sûrya India, vol. 12

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

WILLIAM CONGREVE

Love for Love

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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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I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose
That blossoms in the garden of the King.

ELSA BARKER

The Mystic Rose

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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


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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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

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

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


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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If women are by barbarians reduced to the level of slaves, it is because barbarians themselves have never yet risen to the rank of men.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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

EDNA FERBER

"Sun Dried"

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A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.

IRVING BERLIN

"A Pretty Girl is like a Melody"

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