Quotes about women

"We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters."

Wilde, Lady Jane on women   

"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with."

Williams, Tennessee on women   

"Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?"

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding."

Wycherley, William on women   

"To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful."

Yeats, William Butler on women
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"To please a woman is to say 'please' to a woman...but at other times not."

Wakcher, Michael on women   

"Women have tiny uncertainties that would eventually overwhelm any calculation"

Mocca, William on women   

"No man on earth comes before his mother. Tadj Abdelkader from "Between two""

Tadj Abelkader on women   

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. "

Woolf, Virginia on women