WOMEN QUOTES XVII

quotations about women

Ay, Marry, sir -- the only rising up in arms is in the arms of a woman!

THOMAS DEKKER

Blurt, Master Constable

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If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The Guardian, May 12, 2014

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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

attributed, Great Hollywood Wit

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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


To know a mature woman is to know more than her body. It is to know her dreams and her secrets. It is to know that a dance is a fight, and a fight is a dance, and that passion and compassion beat in the same breast.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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We never see the mass of women en costume, without being reminded of the artificial flies used in angling--tricked out, also, with much the same object, only that, like St. Peter, women are "fishers of men."

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats.

HARRIET LERNER

The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

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A campaign is using a new hashtag called #WomenNotObjects to promote the need to stop objectifying women when it comes to advertising products and companies. The YouTube post, "We Are #WomenNotObjects" has received approximately 1,075,821 views and demonstrates to its viewers that you can find many advertisements that objectify women just by googling it.

TISHA LENON

"Women are not objects for your brand", Talon Marks, February 9, 2016


Don't tell me about God having made such creatures to be companions for us! I don't say but He might make Eve to be a companion for Adam in Paradise--there was no cooking to be spoilt there, and no other woman to cackle with and make mischief; though you see what mischief she did as soon as she'd an opportunity.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Men look at women the way men look at cars. Everyone looks at Ferraris. Now and then we like a pickup truck, and we all end up with station wagons.

TIM ALLEN

Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man

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Women are women and can't help themselves.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

The Red Planet

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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"


Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

MARCEL PROUST

Sodom and Gomorrah

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If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

JAMES THURBER

"The Duchess and the Bugs", Lanterns & Lances

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself;--all that runs over will be yours.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


In a society that is becoming desensitized, robotic and in some cases debilitatingly prescriptive. Women are faking orgasms more -- maybe to just get it all over with.

PAMELA ANDERSON

blog post, Pamela Anderson Foundation, March 30, 2017

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Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Idylls of the King

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No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

REX STOUT

The Mother Hunt


The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Philanderer

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