WOMEN QUOTES II

quotations about women

Women quote

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

ANITA BROOKNER

A Friend from England

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I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.

KYRA SEDGWICK

Newsweek, October 15, 2007

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Most women desire someone who makes them laugh and also feel safe, so basically a clown ninja.

ANONYMOUS


Raising sons who respect women is something that Millennial feminists do by being mindful of their vocabulary. There's no talk of opening that jar of pickles "like a man" or "throwing like a girl." It's not actually super hard to give up ignorant, outdated phrases like these, but the meanings behind them tend to stick if you adopt sayings like these at all. I don't think I've ever heard my husband insinuate that he is stronger than me simply because he's a man in front of our son or otherwise. I guess he just knows better.

CHRISSY BOBIC

"10 Ways Millennial Feminists Are Raising Sons Who Respect Women", Romper, February 9, 2016


Women's eyes have pierced more hearts than ever did the bullets of war.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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If you don't think women are explosive, drop one.

GERALD F. LIEBERMAN

attributed, Dim Wit: The Stupidest Quotes of All Time

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Most women are not so young as they are painted.

MAX BEERBOHM

A Defence of Cosmetics

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A woman that speaks the truth finds no favor in my eyes, for she disturbs the pretty theories I cherish about her sex.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


Somewhere along the lines, women let someone tell us that we can't have it all. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Really? Well then what is the point of serving me the cake if I can't eat it as well?

TAMARA ANGELA GRANT

"Women Are Necessary...", Huffington Post, March 9, 2017


I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

FRANK SINATRA

attributed, The Way You Wear Your Hat

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With women the heart argues, not the mind.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Merope

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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

speech after her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election

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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

SAMUEL SMILES

Character

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I seen a pretty woman in a red dress ... And then I seen her take it off. What else is there?

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

BARBRA STREISAND

People Magazine, May 31, 1993

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You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

BERNARD CORNWELL

The Winter King

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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

OSCAR WILDE

A Woman of No Importance

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It's the silliest lie a sensible man like you ever believed, to say a woman makes a house comfortable. It's a story got up, because the women are there, and something must be found for 'em to do. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha' been left to the men.... I tell you, a woman 'ull bake you a pie every week of her life, and never come to see that the hotter th' oven the shorter the time.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

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Women are more than freestanding uteruses.

PHOEBE MALTZ BOVY

New Republic, February 8, 2016