Quotes about women
women bored virtuous-woman
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
women facts matter
I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just can't put my finger on it. Jerry Lewis
women tears responsible
Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them. Georges Courteline
women should-have government
Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'. Jeffrey Bernard
women
She wavers, she hesitates: in a word, she is a woman. Jean Racine
women heaven good-woman
A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven. Jerome K. Jerome
women love-yourself thinking
If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that. Jennifer Lopez
women memorable health
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. Jean Kerr
women learning hypocrite
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
women wish cleaning
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
women sky mind
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch. Jean Giraudoux
women sage poet
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. Jean Ingelow
women expression sheep
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. James Agate
women years feet
This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.
women views world
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds. Gao Xingjian
women character civilization
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. Fulton J. Sheen
women flower lovely
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world. Christian Dior
women female trade
The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. Germaine Greer
women struggle order
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
women reality deviousness
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
women home may
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
women accusation
The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible. Frances Perkins
women being-in-love love-is
I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive. Fran Lebowitz
women wife empresses
I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.
women people original-thought
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
women different reason
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. George Santayana
women thinking tests
What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature. George Meredith
women men lasts
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
women milk reason
Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
women men
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. Friedrich Nietzsche
women depth fathom
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
women bird height
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
women rome bed
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate. Franz Grillparzer