WOMEN QUOTES XIX

quotations about women

A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.

NORA ROBERTS

Black Hills

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Ay, Marry, sir -- the only rising up in arms is in the arms of a woman!

THOMAS DEKKER

Blurt, Master Constable

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A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Ferragus, chef des Dévorants

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A campaign is using a new hashtag called #WomenNotObjects to promote the need to stop objectifying women when it comes to advertising products and companies. The YouTube post, "We Are #WomenNotObjects" has received approximately 1,075,821 views and demonstrates to its viewers that you can find many advertisements that objectify women just by googling it.

TISHA LENON

"Women are not objects for your brand", Talon Marks, February 9, 2016


Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, February 19, 1937


Or light or dark, or short or tall, she sets a spring to snare them all; all's one to her--above her fan, she'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

"Coquette"

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Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

SAMUEL SMILES

Character


Men look at women the way men look at cars. Everyone looks at Ferraris. Now and then we like a pickup truck, and we all end up with station wagons.

TIM ALLEN

Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man

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A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.

OSAMU DAZAI

No Longer Human


For one to admire a woman merely for her beauty, is to love the building for its exterior; but to love one for the greatness of her soul, is to appreciate the tenement for its intrinsic value.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.

REX STOUT

Some Buried Caesar

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A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, "Perhaps this is THE man."

DORIS LESSING

The Golden Notebook

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Philanderer

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions today.

WILLIAM BOLITHO

Twelve Against the Gods

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Men survey women before treating them. Consequently how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated.

JOHN BERGER

Ways of Seeing

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The government runs the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

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It took him a moment to respond to the unguarded sweetness of her smile, her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night


A woman's passion is like the tide, it stays for no man when the hour is come.

APHRA BEHN

The Lucky Chance

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