Quotes about women
women ocean heart
So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living! Harriet Beecher Stowe
women battle frightening
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. Hugh Grant
women thinking tyrants
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. Hannah Arendt
women shallow bottom
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. Friedrich Nietzsche
women forget ifs
If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
women life-is yeah
Yes, life is a woman!
women precious-stones world
Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
women hate decrease
Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
women doubt able
Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy
women games hatred
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
women contentment rags
Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
women race would-be
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. George Bernard Shaw
women military careers
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
women vitality blind
Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
women mean miserable
A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
women world pitfalls
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
women female murderer
Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
women sometimes deserted
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
women answers fool
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
women waiting spiders
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
women anger common
Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.
women nuisance ghastly
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
women motherhood two
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
women angry-man goes-on
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
women numbers body
During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
women selfish jealous
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
women eye son
Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also. Gelett Burgess
women son weapons
My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.
women fool compliment
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
women trying makest
If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.
women past names
Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.
women fall world
The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.
women men allies
Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.