WOMEN QUOTES II

quotations about women

Women quote

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths. Nor, tragically, does its influence stop at the walls of the church, mosque, synagogue or temple. This discrimination, unjustifiably attributed to a Higher Authority, has provided a reason or excuse for the deprivation of women's equal rights across the world for centuries. At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives, and continues to deny them fair access to education, health, employment and influence within their own communities.... The truth is that male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

JIMMY CARTER

"Losing My Religion for Equality"

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Women are more than freestanding uteruses.

PHOEBE MALTZ BOVY

New Republic, February 8, 2016


I could not possibly love one woman, having known the holiness of all women.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.

KYRA SEDGWICK

Newsweek, October 15, 2007

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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Mill on the Floss


A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

A Streetcar Named Desire

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When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

JAMES LAVER

attributed, Sûrya India, vol. 12

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[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.

EDNA FERBER

"Sun Dried"

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Women could be trying at times, but they often brought warmth and pleasure to a man's fire.

JEAN M. AUEL

The Clan of the Cave Bear

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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

JOHN STEINBECK

East of Eden

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A woman that speaks the truth finds no favor in my eyes, for she disturbs the pretty theories I cherish about her sex.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


With women the heart argues, not the mind.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Merope

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Most women desire someone who makes them laugh and also feel safe, so basically a clown ninja.

ANONYMOUS


Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

JOHN GRAY

Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus

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It's the silliest lie a sensible man like you ever believed, to say a woman makes a house comfortable. It's a story got up, because the women are there, and something must be found for 'em to do. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha' been left to the men.... I tell you, a woman 'ull bake you a pie every week of her life, and never come to see that the hotter th' oven the shorter the time.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


I seen a pretty woman in a red dress ... And then I seen her take it off. What else is there?

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch


You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

BERNARD CORNWELL

The Winter King

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Women men want to sleep with always win when men are making the decisions.

RITA RUDNER

Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel

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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.

WILLIAM CONGREVE

Love for Love

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