Quotes about women

"Were there no women, men might live like gods."

Dekker, Thomas on women   

"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."

Diderot, Denis on women   

"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."

Dietrich, Marlene on women
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"Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs."

Dowling, Colette on women   

"A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary."

Dunne, Finley Peter on women   

"The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children."

Duras, Marguerite on women   

"Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others."

Earhart, Amelia on women
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"Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on women   

"Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on women   

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

Eliot, George on women
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"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

Eliot, George on women   

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"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."

Eliot, George on women   

"Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike."

Eliot, George on women   

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"Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on women   

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"Women lie about their age; men lie about their income."

Feather, William on women
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"The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders."

Festa, Linda on women   

"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."

Franklin, Benjamin on women
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"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes."

French, Marilyn on women   

"Woman submits to her fate; man makes his."

Gaboriau, Emile on women   

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"Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!"

Gay, John on women
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"I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them."

Gay, John on women
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"It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her."

Geraldy, Paul on women
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"The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply."

Gillman, Charlotte P. on women   

"Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on women   

"Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last."

Gourmont, Remy De on women
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"The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world."

Grable, Betty on women
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"Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished."

Gray, John on women
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"Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving."

Gray, John on women
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"A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood."

Gray, John on women
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"When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom."

Gray, John on women
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"I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn."

Greer, Germaine on women
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"Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin."

Greer, Germaine on women   

"Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism."

Greer, Germaine on women   

"Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself."

Hall, G. Stanely on women
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"Men should be saying I want to become a woman. The world would be a far better place if more men wanted to become women, than women wanted to become men."

Halsey, Albert on women   

"Women make love for love, men make love for lust."

Harge, Derrick on women
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"To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman."

Harrison, Jane on women   

"I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men."

Hawn, Goldie on women   

"The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege."

Helps, Sir Arthur on women