Quotes about women
women emotion
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion. Stendhal
women want figures
A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around. Spike Lee
women dark psychology
The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology. Sigmund Freud
women stupid intelligent
I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to. Shakira
women heart writing
Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
women gossip pieces
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. Robert A. Heinlein
women years mind
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
women blood religion
Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones. Tillie Olsen
women handsome week
I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week. Tilda Swinton
women moving home
Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company. Toni Morrison
women thinking creative
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. Toni Morrison
women forgiving never-forget
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
women eyebrows way
The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
women
Women have every right; they just have to excercise them. Victoria Woodhull
women government
Women have no government. Victoria Woodhull
women common citizenship
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. Victoria Woodhull
women endeavor
I endeavor to make the most of everything. Victoria Woodhull
women men unfortunate
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man. Victor Hugo
women school hands
God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop. Victor Hugo
women yield magnanimity
One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield. Victor Hugo
women bravery curiosity
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. Victor Hugo
women creating finals
Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. Robert Bloch
women imagination impossible
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. Rita Dove
women two frail
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring. Thomas Overbury
women hypocrisy mind
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods. Thomas Otway
women believe angel
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love. Thomas Otway
women important disease
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. Susan Sontag
women reality people
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. Susan Sontag
women philosophy talking
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. Rose Macaulay
women mean men
No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him. Rex Stout
women taken tickets
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket. Rex Stout
women intellectual process
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. Rex Stout
women done experts
I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would. Rex Stout