WOMEN QUOTES XII

quotations about women


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Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

PATRICIA BRIGGS
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When Demons Walk


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I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways. It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for man must battle for his fortress at every door and window. He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.

WASHINGTON IRVING

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow


A woman has but eight roles open to her: ingénue, mother, witch, detective, nun, whore, queen, and corpse.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

Radiance


Affection with some women amounts almost to disease.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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I need a real MAN--
so, I can be a Woman--
We are different for good reasons.
We need each other like puzzle pieces.
To inspire greatness in each other.

PAMELA ANDERSON

blog post, Pamela Anderson Foundation, April 4, 2017

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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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You gotta respect a girl who realizes that romantic relationships are built on lies and goes to town with it!

PETE ABRAMS

"That Which Redeems", Sluggy Freelance, August 26, 2004

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To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.

JOHN BERGER

Ways of Seeing

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Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which he has bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love is a taking of man within her, and act of birth and rebirth, of child bearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to BE. But for a woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment when man rests inside of her.

ANAÏS NIN

diary, May 25, 1932

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Never mix your women.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

KATHARINE HEPBURN

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes

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But like all the other women I have referred to, she expressed herself with passionate and disarming effrontery.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays

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Gone are the days when women were solely viewed as damsels in distress. Beyond the feminine exterior lies a modern and empowered hero. While in the past, society largely viewed a woman as a princess waiting to be swept off her feet by a prince, we now know that our strength lies, not in our gender, but in our bravery to step up and act on things we believe in.

CHRISTINE BERNADETTE F. ALMOITE

"Women are heroes, too", Inquirer, March 26, 2017


It's like there is a section of society that thinks single women are a bit odd. If you've found someone who agrees to live with you and spend time with you then you get "stamped" with approval -- you've met the requirements of life. If you haven't been "validated" -- and are single -- there can be a suspicion about you, that there's something a bit wrong with you.

MEERA DATTANI

"Are You A Victim Of Singlism?", Grazia Daily, February 10, 2016


The most important thing in knowing that women are necessary is knowing that men are necessary too.

TAMARA ANGELA GRANT

"Women Are Necessary...", Huffington Post, March 9, 2017


A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Vanity Fair

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We don't really have to go out of our way as parents to teach our kids how to respect men in the same way we do women because they're already growing up in a world where men are people and women are pretty toys.

CHRISSY BOBIC

"10 Ways Millennial Feminists Are Raising Sons Who Respect Women", Romper, February 9, 2016


No man ever reaches manhood
till a woman's tenderness
is a part of his possession.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Conquerors"

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No one but a women can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

BRAM STOKER

Dracula

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The really clever thing, in affairs of this sort, is not to win a woman already desired by everyone, but to discover such a prize while she is still unknown.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, October 7, 1940

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