Quotes about women
women degrees proportion
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us. Charles Baudelaire
women opportunity missing
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
women school flying
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. Bessie Coleman
women black-history done
No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around. Bessie Smith
women
With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem. Nia Peeples
women needs vote
It's not the vote women need, we should be armed. Edna O'Brien
women mean memorable
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
women wife danger
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. Benjamin Franklin
women blunt conversation
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. Barbara Walters
women worry desire
The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading. Barbara Tuchman
women church devil
Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
women europe self
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
women literature holmes
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. Arthur Conan Doyle
women sea soul
When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile. Anton Chekhov
women lasts next
Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one. Bella Abzug
women rooms pedestal
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
women equality being-a-strong-woman
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
women writing black
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough. bell hooks
women clothes trying
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes. Barry Watson
women successful blood
By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful. Arianna Huffington
women political movement
Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.
women failure successful
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
women fancy ruins
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.
women safety storm
Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.
women fall flower
Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. William Shakespeare
women disputes lunatic
Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
women
I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors. Nina Jacobson
women writing thinking
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. Diane Wakoski
women thinking problem
My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.
women suits women-in-history
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit. Dianne Feinstein
women independent want
The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman. Diane von Furstenberg
women want cases
I want in all cases to do right. Abraham Lincoln
women
Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier? Linda Fiorentino