WOMEN QUOTES XIII

quotations about women

There is an age old prejudice the world over to effect that women talk too much. But is this really a weakness? Could it not in fact be a strength? Recent scientific research on the human brain has revealed that women are better at verbal skills while men tend towards physical action. Psychological research has shown on the other hand that disinformation engendered by men has a far more damaging effect on its victims than feminine gossip. Surely these discoveries indicate that women have a most valuable contribution to make in situations of conflict, by leading the way to solutions based on dialogue rather than on viciousness or violence.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China, August 31, 1995

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You gotta respect a girl who realizes that romantic relationships are built on lies and goes to town with it!

PETE ABRAMS

"That Which Redeems", Sluggy Freelance, August 26, 2004

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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Guardian, September 8, 1713

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Men may weary by their constancy, but women never.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

A Daughter of Eve

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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

GLORIA STEINEM

attributed, Quote Unquote

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Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Interview Magazine, September 1987

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

TIMOTHY LEARY

attributed, Was It Good for You Too?

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To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.

JOHN BERGER

Ways of Seeing

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

GEORGE MEREDITH

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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But like all the other women I have referred to, she expressed herself with passionate and disarming effrontery.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays

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The really clever thing, in affairs of this sort, is not to win a woman already desired by everyone, but to discover such a prize while she is still unknown.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, October 7, 1940

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No man ever reaches manhood
till a woman's tenderness
is a part of his possession.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Conquerors"

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It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Crossing

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Woman is like a diamond with many facets: the imagination of man, the light which produces from them innumerable permutations and combinations of color. The character of woman is comparatively simple, but man imagines much and attributes it to her.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke


Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them.

PHILIP MOELLER

Helena's Husband

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In the choice of a wife, sundry men are of sundry minds. One looketh high as one that feareth no chips, saying that the oil that swimmeth on the top is the wholesomest. Another poreth in the ground, as dreading all dangers that happen in great stocks, alleging that the honey that lieth in the bottom is the sweetest.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

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