WOMEN QUOTES XXVI

quotations about women

All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It's a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

DORIS LESSING

attributed, An Uncommon Scold

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He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

The Silence of Colonel Bramble


It is a common fate -- a woman's lot --
To waste on one the riches of her soul,
Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot
Repay the interest, and much less the whole.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"The Common Lot"


Most fashionable ladies are as diamonds because they are more costly than useful.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote


What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

GEORGE MEREDITH

Diana of the Crossways

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The heart of a coquette, like the tail of a lizard, always grows again after she has lost it.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"

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When my son said, "I can't stop thinking about girls," I said, "That's not gonna stop. Congratulations. You're in the club. From now until the day you die, one way or another you'll be thinking about girls."

PAUL REISER

Good Housekeeping, June 2011

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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Pamela

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Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.

ROBERT BROWNING

The Inn Album

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In the choice of a wife, we ought to make use of our ears, and not our eyes.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.

JOHN LENNON

interview, KFRC RKO Radio, December 8, 1980

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A woman in power is hardly a routine matter. Historically, 63 of 142 nations studied by the World Economic Forum have had a female head of government or state at some point in the half-century preceding 2014. However, in nearly two-thirds of those nations a woman was in power for less than four of the 50 years. And in 11 countries (17%), a woman led for less than a year.

TARA SONENSHINE

"U.S. vs the World? Women as Top Political Leaders", The Globalist, February 10, 2016


According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome, the social presence of a woman is different in kind from that of a man. A man's presence is dependent upon the promise of power which he embodies.... A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. His presence may be fabricated, in the sense that he pretends to b capable of what he is not. But the pretence is always towards a power which he exercises on others. By contrast, a woman's presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her.

JOHN BERGER

Ways of Seeing

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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women

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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.

TANITH LEE

Hunting the Shadows

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'Of womenkind such indeed is the love,
Or the word love abused,
Under which many childish desires
And conceits are excused.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

As Ye Came from the Holy Land

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