Quotes about women
women justice weakness
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious. Arthur Schopenhauer
women fire would-be
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Aristophanes
women chance drink
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
womens-beauty wit submit
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit? Aphra Behn
women years chicks
These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that. Brian Welch
women logic curse
seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die. Edwin Arlington Robinson
women men accustomed
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. E. V. Lucas
women buying-things buying
A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back. E. W. Howe
women breakfast looks
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
women vanity giving
The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster. Coventry Patmore
women work
I work for women. I only think for them. If I didn't like women, I wouldn't do this job. Azzedine Alaia
women
As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat! Amanda Harlech
women
Prim and proper white women, I like what I see. Guy Madison
women rocks play
It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the 70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour. Ann Wilson
women airplane sisterhood
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. Amelia Earhart
women lucky misfits
I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit. Claire Danes
women thinking giving
That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him. D. H. Lawrence
women fame donkey
If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
women safe belief
[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
women literature dry
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
women function
A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.
women real trying
The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.
women giving one-woman
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
women thinking empowerment
Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade. Constance Baker Motley
women battle demand
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men. Clara Zetkin
women party issues
What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
women machines modern
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
women law movement
Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.
women accomplishment being-thankful
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful. Daniel Defoe
women feelings outcomes
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph. Dorothea Brande
women love-is literature
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. Doris Lessing
women real silly
Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.
women slave women-beauty
Women are slaves to their beauty.