WOMEN QUOTES XXVII

quotations about women

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

STACY AUMONIER

"The Great Unimpressionable", The Golden Windmill and Other Stories

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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


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


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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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women

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Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.

TANITH LEE

Hunting the Shadows

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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

YVES SAINT LAURENT

Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983

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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.

D. H. LAWRENCE

letter to John Middleton Murry, November 27, 1913

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Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

letter to Steve Richmond, November 1971

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All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It's a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

DORIS LESSING

attributed, An Uncommon Scold

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Sometimes women who aren't perfect are more interesting; they've done more, or learned something.

JEAN M. AUEL

The Valley of Horses

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