WOMEN QUOTES III
quotations about women
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
attributed, Woman's Day, August 2011
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
FRANK SINATRA
attributed, The Way You Wear Your Hat
All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Glass Menagerie
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
BARBRA STREISAND
People Magazine, May 31, 1993
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
speech after her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election
A woman that speaks the truth finds no favor in my eyes, for she disturbs the pretty theories I cherish about her sex.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
Every world has faults
This one has too many
Unattainable Female Objects.
DAVID JONATHAN NEWMAN
"U.F.O.", The Light Looks Another Way
It's the silliest lie a sensible man like you ever believed, to say a woman makes a house comfortable. It's a story got up, because the women are there, and something must be found for 'em to do. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha' been left to the men.... I tell you, a woman 'ull bake you a pie every week of her life, and never come to see that the hotter th' oven the shorter the time.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
MAX BEERBOHM
A Defence of Cosmetics
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Mill on the Floss
Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.
PAULINE RÉAGE
introduction, The Image
I seen a pretty woman in a red dress ... And then I seen her take it off. What else is there?
WILLIAM GAY
Provinces of Night
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER
New York World, August 16, 1925
Most women desire someone who makes them laugh and also feel safe, so basically a clown ninja.
ANONYMOUS
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
OSCAR WILDE
A Woman of No Importance
With women the heart argues, not the mind.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Merope
Women's eyes have pierced more hearts than ever did the bullets of war.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs