WOMEN QUOTES XXIII

quotations about women


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Women want to be treated like -- surprise -- human beings, not machines to insert pickup lines into until sex comes out.

SUZANNAH WEISS
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"10 Things Women Are Tired Of Hearing On Dates", Bustle, February 9, 2016


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You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

NORMAN MAILER

attributed, The Book of Poisonous Quotes

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An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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For women, forming close, cooperative relationships with other women at once poses important opportunities and possible threats--including to mate retention. To maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of same-sex social relationships, we propose that women's mate guarding is functionally flexible and that women are sensitive to both interpersonal and contextual cues indicating whether other women might be likely and effective mate poachers. Here, we assess one such cue: other women's fertility. Because ovulating (i.e., high-fertility) women are both more attractive to men and also more attracted to (desirable) men, ovulating women may be perceived to pose heightened threats to other women's romantic relationships.

JAIMIA ARONA KREMS & REBECCA NEEL

The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 14, 2016


It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

HOWARD ZINN

A People's History of the United States

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No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, April 14, 1941

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Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

CHRIS ABANI

"What Men Aren't Telling Us", O Magazine, July 2008

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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.

D. H. LAWRENCE

letter to John Middleton Murry, November 27, 1913

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Because a woman brought death
a bright Maiden overcame it,
and so the highest blessing
in all of creation
lies in the form of a woman,
since God has become man
in a sweet and blessed Virgin.

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

"Quia ergo femina"

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In oranges and women courage is often mistaken for insanity.

SALLY ROBINSON

Iron Jawed Angels

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Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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Too credulous a woman's longing flies
And spreading swiftly, swiftly dies.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

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Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain,
Inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies.

JOHN KEATS

"Woman! When I Behold Thee"


Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.

BILL COSBY

attributed, The Best Book of Useless Information Ever

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You've heard it before, but are afraid to say it aloud for fear of sounding boastful. Southern women are prettier than others. But wait just a cotton pickin' minute. Is it true? Are we really prettier? I'll let you in on a little secret. We're not. Everyone just has that illusion because the truth is, we only try harder. Our secret weapon for loveliness, passed down by generations of Southern ladies, is our ability to make the best out of what we have, or in other words, "effort."

LESLIE ANNE TARABELLA

"Are Southern women prettier?", AL, April 3, 2017


A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings


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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Frailty, thy name is woman.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

IVAN KLIMA

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

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