WOMEN QUOTES XXIII

quotations about women

Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas.

CARMEN BOULLOSA

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1995

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park

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I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.

OSAMU DAZAI

No Longer Human

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When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues.

HONORE DE BALZAC

The Muse of the Department


Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

ARISTOPHANES

Women at the Thesmophoria

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The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

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

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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

An Old-Fashioned Girl


He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Maxims for Revolutionists


Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

CHRIS ABANI

"What Men Aren't Telling Us", O Magazine, July 2008

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To awake a woman's curiosity is to make her pliable.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Women and music should never be dated.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

She Stoops to Conquer

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It had always bothered Tom that women thought they could win an argument with a man simply by appealing to his baser instincts, by holding out the mere possibility of award-winning carnal knowledge. It was the gender equivalent of a preemptive nuclear strike. He thought it unfair and, quite frankly, disrespectful of the entire male population. And yet he heard himself saying, "Look, baby doll, I don't want to argue either."

DAVID BALDACCI

The Christmas Train

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Man ... heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand ... heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

MELINDA GATES

Woman's Day Magazine, October 2, 2007

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

letter to "Scottie", November 18, 1938

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In oranges and women courage is often mistaken for insanity.

SALLY ROBINSON

Iron Jawed Angels

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I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.

OSAMU DAZAI

No Longer Human


Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.

BILL COSBY

attributed, The Best Book of Useless Information Ever

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Man makes one journey all his living days,
Down through the realms of music and of art;
Down through the halls of fame and glorious praise;
Down through the tears and triumphs of the heart
To some sweet woman waiting some place there.
For her he builds his cities and makes war,
Seeks gold and glorious wealth to store.

EDWIN CURRAN

"The Eternal Quest"


The only way to win a wench is not to woo her; the only way to have her fast is to have her loose.

THOMAS DEKKER

Blurt, Master Constable