Quotes about women

"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

Millet, Kate on women
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"The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young."

Millet, Kate on women   

"We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on women   

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"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

Murdoch, Iris on women   

"If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks."

Nelms, Cynthia on women
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"Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her."

Nin, Anais on women   

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."

Onassis, Aristotle on women
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"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts."

Paglia, Camille on women
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"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."

Paglia, Camille on women
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"Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: Blind yourself, for I am blind."

Pirandello, Luigi on women   

"Most women have no characters at all."

Pope, Alexander on women   

"The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition."

Rankin, Jeannette on women   

"A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."

Reagan, Nancy on women
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"No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe."

Rich, Adrienne on women   

"I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me."

Rooney, Mickey on women
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"Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!"

Rowland, Helen on women   

"For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience."

Russell, Bertrand on women   

"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."

Sade, Marquis De on women
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"If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity."

Sand, George on women
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"Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on women   

"I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year."

Sharp, Becky on women   

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"The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her."

Shaw, George Bernard on women   

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"There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm."

Sills, Beverly on women
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"The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies."

Spacks, Patricia Meyer on women   

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."

Stark, Freya on women
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"To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education."

Steele, Sir Richard on women   

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Steinem, Gloria on women   

"Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked."

Thatcher, Margaret on women
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"It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady."

Thoreau, Henry David on women   

"I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on women   

"I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

Twain, Mark on women   

"The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned."

Unknown, Source on women
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"Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant."

Unknown, Source on women   

"Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow -- or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends."

Unknown, Source on women   

"A typical minority group stereotype -- woman as nigger -- if she knows her place (home), she is really a quite lovable, loving creature, happy and childlike."

Weisstein, Naomi on women   

"The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arrogant in tight jeans, openly inviting, breasts falling free and shameless and feeling no apparent obligation to smile, look pleasant or keep their voices low. And how they live! Just look at them to know how! If a man doesn't bring them to orgasm, they look for another who does. If by mistake they fall pregnant, they abort by vacuum aspiration. If they don't like the food, they push the plate away. If the job doesn't suit them, they hand in their notice. They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them."

Weldon, Fay on women   

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys."

Welles, Orson on women
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"Give us that grand word woman once again, and let's have done with lady; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on women