Quotes about women

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

Hepburn, Katharine on women
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"Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run."

Hoagland, Edward on women   

"Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone."

Hoban, Russell on women   

"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."

James, Henry on women   

"Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves."

Johnson, Samuel on women   

"Men and women, women and men; it will never work."

Jong, Erica on women   

"Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed."

Korda, Michael on women   

"Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums."

Laing, Dilys on women   

"Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals."

Lasch, Christopher on women   

"The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection."

Lawrence, D. H. on women
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"The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action."

Lawrence, D. H. on women   

"The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being."

Lawrence, D. H. on women   

"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on women   

"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."

Loos, Anita on women   

"When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family."

Maciver, Robert M. on women
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"I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age."

Mcginley, Phyllis on women   

"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."

Mcginley, Phyllis on women   

"Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation."

Mead, Margaret on women   

"Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse."

Meir, Golda on women
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"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."

Mencken, H. L. on women   

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"A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition."

Mencken, H. L. on women
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"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier."

Mencken, H. L. on women   

"Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago."

Mencken, H. L. on women   

"Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different."

Millet, Kate on women   

"Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on women   

"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around."

Oakley, Ann on women   

"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim."

Oates, Joyce Carol on women
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"The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness."

Oliphant, Margaret on women   

"Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous."

Pizzey, Erin on women   

"She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership)."

Porter, O. Henry on women   

"If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry."

Porter, O. Henry on women
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"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination."

Proust, Marcel on women   

"If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent."

Proverb, Italian on women   

"Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them."

Qur'an on women   

"Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men."

Reik, Theodor on women
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"I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters."

Renoir, Pierre Auguste on women   

"The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on women   

"It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him."

Rowland, Helen on women
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"Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time."

Rowland, Helen on women