Quotes about women

"Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise."

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von on women
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"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."

Santayana, George on women
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"We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest -- blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says -- Work; and to us it says -- Seem! To you it says -- As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labor is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says -- Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labor. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women."

Schreiner, Olive on women   

"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is."

Schreiner, Olive on women   

"He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him."

Shakespeare, William on women
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"There is very little difference between men and women in space."

Sharman, Helen on women   

"If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race."

Shaw, George Bernard on women   

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"When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it."

Smith, Charles M. on women   

"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years."

Smith, Lillian on women   

"Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy."

Solanis, Valerie on women   

"The three sexes are men, women, and professors."

Spingarn, J. E. on women   

"A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo."

Stein, Ruthie on women
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"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

Steinem, Gloria on women
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"The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man."

Stendhal, Henri B. on women   

"A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find."

Stephens, James on women   

"The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on women   

"Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on women
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"Either sex alone is half itself."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on women   

"'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel."

Thackeray, William M. on women   

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"The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg."

Thatcher, Margaret on women
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"The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi."

Thomas, David on women   

"I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?"

Thurber, James on women   

"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."

Turner, Lana on women
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"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."

Unknown, Source on women   

"Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love."

Unknown, Source on women
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"Men never remember, but women never forget."

Unknown, Source on women   

"If women were humbler, men would be more honest."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on women
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"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous."

Victoria, Queen on women   

"Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love."

Wastholm, Peter on women
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"No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them."

Weininger, Otto on women   

"Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings."

West, Mae on women
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"When women go wrong, men go right after them."

West, Mae on women
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"The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots."

West, Rebecca on women
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"It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked."

Wickham, Anna on women   

"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it."

Wilde, Oscar on women   

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."

Wilde, Oscar on women   

"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man."

Wollstonecraft, Mary on women   

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"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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