WOMEN QUOTES V
quotations about women
A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Stranger in a Strange Land
When we assume women to be more adept at managing emotional communication, we are responding to the fact that women are granted permission to publicly express a somewhat wider range of emotions. But women have long been relegated to the greeting-card school of emotional expression. Love or condolences with a nice filigree. Nothing threatening. Nothing dark. You won't find a Hallmark card for despair or rage. You won't find a Hallmark card for panic or insecurity.
MARK GREENE
"Women Are Better At Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple", Yes Magazine, January 27, 2016
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
JOHN FLETCHER
Monsieur Thomas
When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Mrs. Richard Stockton, September 2, 1783
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Eleanor Parke Custis, January 16, 1795
I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.
JOHN KEATS
letter to Benjamin Bailey, July 18, 1818
It was the part of a woman so to refine and educate her mind, as to be the cause of good alone to him whose fate depended on her smile.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Lodore
Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.
MARGARET SANGER
"Morality and Birth Control", Birth Control Review, February/March 1918
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China, August 31, 1995
Two women can't share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It's got to be one woman's kitchen.
NORA ROBERTS
Blue Smoke
A bitch is no match for a lady except in a brass bed, honey, and sometimes not even there.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Night of the Iguana
All women had been cursed from the cradle; all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men.
JAMES BALDWIN
Go Tell It on the Mountain
People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
EURIPIDES
Ion
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
Mademoiselle Panache
Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You Learn by Living
Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.
ROBI LUDWIG
interview, The Romance Files, February 16, 2011
A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS
An Art of Living
Love deceives the best of womankind.
HOMER
The Odyssey