WOMEN QUOTES VIII
quotations about women
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
TOBSHA LEARNER
Soul
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democratic president. It's kind of a pipe dream; it's a personal fantasy of mine.
ANN COULTER
Newsweek, October 15, 2007
Women like to perform prodigies, break rocks, and soften natures which seem of iron.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
A Daughter of Eve
Feline, feminine: A quaint similarity of sound. Brutal the thought that suggests an analogy.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.
JAMIE LEE CURTIS
Good Housekeeping, October 2010
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
The Reflections of Lichtenberg
Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.
MARK TWAIN
letter to Mrs. Jane Clemens and Mrs. Moffett, February 8, 1862
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
Gambit
It is not the woman man can be rich with who is the most companionable, but the woman he can be poor with.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
For the first time ever, women are scoring higher than men on IQ tests. Scientists say it has something to do with breast implants -- not that it makes the women smarter, it just makes the men dumber.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, July 19, 2012
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
All women are beautiful when they are young, and their eyes are full and clear and their voices are soft and their bosoms are round and smooth.
LOUIS BECKE
"Solepa", By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories
Earth's noblest thing -- a woman perfected.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Irené
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
ISADORA DUNCAN
My Life
I know the woman has no soul, I know
The woman has no possibilities
Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is
The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so.
It is her flesh that I adore; I go
Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss.
I know she cannot love: it is not this
My vanquished heart implores in overthrow.
Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone,
Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent
Music, divinest human harmony;
Her body now a silent instrument,
That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me
The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.
ARTHUR SYMONS
"Idealism"
The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.
SIGMUND FREUD
The Question of Lay Analysis
What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
YASMINA REZA
The God of Carnage
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Hero and Leander
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.
TERESA MEDEIROS
The Vampire Who Loved Me