WOMEN QUOTES XIV

quotations about women

No man ever reaches manhood
till a woman's tenderness
is a part of his possession.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Conquerors"

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They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

TIMOTHY LEARY

attributed, Was It Good for You Too?

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Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

KINGSLEY AMIS

The King's English: A Guide to Modern English Usage

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When a hen cackles, she's either layin' or lyin'.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Women are not waiting around for lovers, they're living their lives. And believe it or not, having the morning to yourself is very zen.

KAITLYN WILDE

"Comic Artist Depicts Single Women They Way They Really Are -- Quite Content, Thank You Very Much", Bustle, February 9, 2016

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Men may weary by their constancy, but women never.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

A Daughter of Eve

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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

HENRIK IBSEN

From Ibsen's Workshop

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Men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Interview Magazine, September 1987

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The really clever thing, in affairs of this sort, is not to win a woman already desired by everyone, but to discover such a prize while she is still unknown.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, October 7, 1940

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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

Newsweek, March 30, 1981

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Men can sleep with a different woman every night and indulge in the most revolting practices--but let an unmarried woman make one mistake, be led astray when she's young and silly and knows nothing of the world, and she's tainted for life and called a harlot!

SUSANNE ALLEYN

Game of Patience


I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me -- and that I've made of myself -- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.

MARILYN MONROE

attributed, Marilyn, 1962

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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.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

EURIPIDES

Medea

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Men are often like that. They grow bored with simple goodness and want a woman who is dangerous, a challenge.

SUSANNE ALLEYN

Game of Patience

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Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Philip

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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

introduction, History of Woman Suffrage

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