WOMEN QUOTES XVI

quotations about women

If you want to stay single, look for a perfect woman.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

REX STOUT

The Mother Hunt


A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

attributed, Great Hollywood Wit

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We never see the mass of women en costume, without being reminded of the artificial flies used in angling--tricked out, also, with much the same object, only that, like St. Peter, women are "fishers of men."

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

speech in San Francisco, July 1871

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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

HENRIK IBSEN

From Ibsen's Workshop

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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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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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Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

OCTAVE MIRBEAU

The Diary of a Chambermaid

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Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Idylls of the King

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Men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Advertiser, September 9, 2004

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Woman loves or hates: she knows no middle course.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus


Women are not waiting around for lovers, they're living their lives. And believe it or not, having the morning to yourself is very zen.

KAITLYN WILDE

"Comic Artist Depicts Single Women They Way They Really Are -- Quite Content, Thank You Very Much", Bustle, February 9, 2016

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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"


I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

MARCEL PROUST

Sodom and Gomorrah

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Men can sleep with a different woman every night and indulge in the most revolting practices--but let an unmarried woman make one mistake, be led astray when she's young and silly and knows nothing of the world, and she's tainted for life and called a harlot!

SUSANNE ALLEYN

Game of Patience


Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being.... Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

EMMA GOLDMAN

"The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation", Anarchism and Other Essays