WOMEN QUOTES XXIV

quotations about women


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A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE
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Country Town Sayings


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Too credulous a woman's longing flies
And spreading swiftly, swiftly dies.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

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A woman in power is hardly a routine matter. Historically, 63 of 142 nations studied by the World Economic Forum have had a female head of government or state at some point in the half-century preceding 2014. However, in nearly two-thirds of those nations a woman was in power for less than four of the 50 years. And in 11 countries (17%), a woman led for less than a year.

TARA SONENSHINE

"U.S. vs the World? Women as Top Political Leaders", The Globalist, February 10, 2016


Woman began at zero, and has through ages slowly unfolded and risen. Each age has protested against growth as unsexing woman.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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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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There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


I think it says that women are tired of being left behind, having to wait their turn for the men.

YOLIE FLORES

"Half the candidates in L.A.'s congressional race are women: Trump was wake-up call", Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2017


Women are the backbone of this country. We do it all -- we are the most organized and compassionate workers -- and we do it knowing our counterparts are paid more.

TONYA MURRAY

Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2017


Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


Frailty, thy name is woman.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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Everywhere there is pleasure you will find a woman in disguise.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Cool Memories

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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil

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The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda

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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

A Room of One's Own

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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"


Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.

JOHN TODD

Woman's Rights

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As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.

SARAH JESSICA PARKER

Woman's Day Magazine, September 12, 2007

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No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, April 14, 1941

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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him ... In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Second Sex