Quotes about women

"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."

Adams, Henry Brooks on women
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"As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men."

Addison, Joseph on women
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"A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does."

Angelis, Barbara De on women
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"Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are."

Angelis, Barbara De on women
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"The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever."

Angelou, Maya on women   

"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."

Antrim, Minna on women
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"Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him."

Antrim, Minna on women
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"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."

Archard, Marcel on women
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"So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind."

Aristotle on women   

"If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?"

Astell, Mary on women
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"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women."

Astor, Lady Nancy on women
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"She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women."

Atwood, Margaret on women   

"With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works."

Austen, Jane on women   

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"There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them."

Austen, Jane on women   

"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."

Bagehot, Walter on women
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"Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically."

Barry, Dave on women
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"Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely."

Basta on women
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"Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night."

Baudrillard, Jean on women   

"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at."

Berger, John on women
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"Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got."

Billings, Josh on women
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"While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman."

Boccaccio, Giovanni on women   

"A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on women
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"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."

Burchill, Julie on women
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"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."

Byron, Lord on women
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"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant."

Byron, Lord on women
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"There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken."

Byron, Lord on women
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"But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation."

Byron, Lord on women   

"I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves."

Byron, Lord on women
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"A woman should say: Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman? If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy."

Cartland, Barbara on women   

"Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on women   

"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."

Chanel, Coco on women
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"A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking."

Chazal, Malcolm De on women
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"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."

Chesterfield, Lord on women   

"The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home."

Child, Lydia M. on women
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"It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago."

Clark, Eugenie on women
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"A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on women   

"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."

Connolly, Cyril on women
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"Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds."

Crowne, John on women
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"Nature makes woman to be won and men to win."

Curtis, George William on women   

"Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us."

Davis, Evan on women
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