WOMEN QUOTES XIII

quotations about women

Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them.

PHILIP MOELLER

Helena's Husband

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Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which he has bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love is a taking of man within her, and act of birth and rebirth, of child bearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to BE. But for a woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment when man rests inside of her.

ANAÏS NIN

diary, May 25, 1932

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We don't really have to go out of our way as parents to teach our kids how to respect men in the same way we do women because they're already growing up in a world where men are people and women are pretty toys.

CHRISSY BOBIC

"10 Ways Millennial Feminists Are Raising Sons Who Respect Women", Romper, February 9, 2016


A woman is rarely up to date on the subject of her age.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs


I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Interview Magazine, September 1987

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There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch."

DONALD BARTHELME

"The Sea of Hesitation"

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For men have marble, women waxen, minds,
And therefore are they form'd as marble will;
The weak oppress'd, the impression of strange kinds
Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill:
Then call them not the authors of their ill,
No more than wax shall be accounted evil
Wherein is stamp'd the semblance of a devil.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Rape of Lucrece

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Never mix your women.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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Woman is like a diamond with many facets: the imagination of man, the light which produces from them innumerable permutations and combinations of color. The character of woman is comparatively simple, but man imagines much and attributes it to her.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke


Women have more fun because there's more things forbidden to them.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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At some point in their career, it becomes obvious that women are more under-promoted than men are in the same field. There are many reasons as to why it happens and unfortunately, the result of this phenomenon actually perpetuates the problem. It's a cycle that's hard to break.

KAREN FRATTI

"Women Are More Under-Promoted Than Men & That's A Problem For Several Reasons", Romper, April 3, 2017


Men are often like that. They grow bored with simple goodness and want a woman who is dangerous, a challenge.

SUSANNE ALLEYN

Game of Patience

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No one but a women can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

BRAM STOKER

Dracula

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It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Crossing

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You gotta respect a girl who realizes that romantic relationships are built on lies and goes to town with it!

PETE ABRAMS

"That Which Redeems", Sluggy Freelance, August 26, 2004

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A woman you've endured such a gnawing desire for, you can't help bearing a little grudge against, when the ache is gone.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit at Rest

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Sure, we can be heartless and refuse to express any sort of emotion. We can be stubborn as hell and scarily temperamental. We often refuse to admit when we're wrong, and we won't acknowledge it when we realize we are. We can be way too aggressive and abrupt. We feel the need to come off as tough, despite the fact that our hearts are made of gold. Aquarius women are a rare breed.

ELIZABETH CABALLERO

"8 Reasons Aquarius Women Are The Most Confident Partners In The Zodiac", Elite Daily, February 9, 2016


Be delicate, little wife-woman. Never be without your veil, without many veils. Veil yourself in a thousand veils, all shimmering and glittering with costly textures and precious jewels. Never let the last veil be drawn. Against the morrow array yourself with more veils, ever more veils, veils without end. Yet the many veils must not seem many. Each veil must seem the only one between you and your hungry lover who will have nothing less than all of you. Each time he must seem to get all, to tear aside the last veil that hides you. He must think so. It must not be so. Then there will be no satiety, for on the morrow he will find another last veil that has escaped him.

JACK LONDON

The Valley of the Moon

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When a hen cackles, she's either layin' or lyin'.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself;--all that runs over will be yours.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon