WOMEN QUOTES XXV

quotations about women


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It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.

GEORGE ELIOT
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Adam Bede


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A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman.... They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

All the Pretty Horses


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


The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.

COVENTRY PATMORE

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower

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It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Pamela

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Let men be men -- and let women be women -- Women competing with men- does not help us -- We have better things to do -- like being mothers.

PAMELA ANDERSON

blog post, Pamela Anderson Foundation, April 4, 2017


Whatever may be thought of "woman's sphere," it is certain that its boundaries have been steadily enlarged; that an increased liberty, not only of secular employments and civil rights, but also of social intercourse, has been accorded to her with increasing civilization; and that, so far from losing, either in the delicacy and refinement of her own character, or in the chivalric homage paid to her by man, she has gained in both respects in the same ratio in which she has been freed from the trammels of an unnatural conventionalism, and elevated to a position of real equality with the dominant sex.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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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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No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The successful woman has a secret. She's learned that she owes it to herself, her children, and the world to make the contribution she was born to make. She's learned to ask for advice and help, to insist on getting paid what she's worth, and to set boundaries at work and at home so that her needs get met, not trampled. She puts her dreams at the top of her priorities list, not at the bottom. She feels great about being recognized for her accomplishments, and she's totally OK with the fact that not everyone is going to like her when she stands up to those who would discount her or put her down.

DEBRA CONDREN

Good Housekeeping, August 2010


If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide,
Of waters soft and sweet:
Alas! I've never reached the other side;
Though oft I've wet my feet!

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

"Epigram", Imogen and Other Poems

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I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

ERMA BOMBECK

Forever, Erma


A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

HONORE DE BALZAC

A Woman of Thirty

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That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote


Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves our respect; for of women do we not all come?

PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA

The Mayor of Zalamea


Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

MARCEL PROUST

The Guermantes Way

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Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

Septimus

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