WOMEN QUOTES XXVI

quotations about women


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Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE
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Septimus


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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

MELINDA GATES

Woman's Day Magazine, October 2, 2007

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Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves our respect; for of women do we not all come?

PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA

The Mayor of Zalamea


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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Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.

LARRY NIVEN

Ringworld

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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"


When the hour of adversity arrives, when false friends are scattered, when we are moving through the keen atmosphere of selfishness, then it is that the virtuous wife, like an angel of light, shines with peculiar lustre.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


'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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Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

MARCEL PROUST

The Guermantes Way

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A woman's passion is nothing less than the sea that tosses a man's ship, and to weather the storm he must use skill and humility to ride her waves, having given up his own course and dragged down his sails, letting the sea take him where it will. For a sailor who knows that there is nothing to fear, this is the greatest adventure of life, as he lashes himself to the mast, knowing that his surrender is his strength and the chance for his redemption.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

An Old-Fashioned Girl


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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With other women he had not been able to touch their flesh without experiencing the desire to devour it, as though ravenous with an abominable hunger to butcher them. But this one, could he then love her, and not kill her?

ÉMILE ZOLA

La Bête Humaine

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

letter to "Scottie", November 18, 1938

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As one person at the dinner table leans back, stretches, and opens their mouth in a gaping yawn, others will soon follow suit. Catching a yawn is more likely to occur between relatives than strangers, and scientists believe it's a sign of empathy. Plus, other social primates like chimps and bonobos do it, too. A new study suggests that women (traditionally branded the more empathetic sex) might be more susceptible to copycat yawning than men. Researchers surreptitiously analyzed more than 4000 real-world yawns on planes and trains, in restaurants, and in offices. They noted when someone yawned, and then whether a nearby acquaintance or friend did the same within a 3-minute period. Men and women spontaneously yawned with about the same frequency. But when someone else yawned first, women were more likely than men to follow suit. Women picked up yawns about 55% of the time, whereas men only did so 40% of the time.

LAUREL HAMERS

"Women are more empathetic than men, yawning study suggests", Science Mag, February 2, 2016


He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Maxims for Revolutionists


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

GEORGE MEREDITH

Diana of the Crossways

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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


Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

KEVIN LEMAN

Sex Begins in the Kitchen

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