WOMEN QUOTES XIII

quotations about women

Men may weary by their constancy, but women never.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

A Daughter of Eve

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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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I need a real MAN--
so, I can be a Woman--
We are different for good reasons.
We need each other like puzzle pieces.
To inspire greatness in each other.

PAMELA ANDERSON

blog post, Pamela Anderson Foundation, April 4, 2017

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But like all the other women I have referred to, she expressed herself with passionate and disarming effrontery.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays

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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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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

letter to "Scottie" Fitzgerald, October 5, 1940


Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

GLORIA STEINEM

attributed, Quote Unquote

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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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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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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


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


Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.

JOHN BERGER

Ways of Seeing

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

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

KINGSLEY AMIS

The King's English: A Guide to Modern English Usage

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

PHILIP MOELLER

Helena's Husband

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No man ever reaches manhood
till a woman's tenderness
is a part of his possession.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Conquerors"

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Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.

HUGH HEFNER

Playboy, January 1974


Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

TIMOTHY LEARY

attributed, Was It Good for You Too?

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