Woman Quotes

You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view.

~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

One who is seeking the truth sooner or later finds a woman.

~ Sergey Vedenyo

Cyrus wanted a woman to take care of Adam. He needed someone to keep house and cook, and a servant cost money. He was a vigorous man and needed the body of a woman, and that too cost money- unless you were married to it. Within two weeks Cyrus had wooed, wedded, bedded, and impregnated her. His neighbors did not find his action hasty. It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime. p.19

~ John Steinbeck

A good woman is a pleasured treasure.

~ Habeeb Akande

I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is woman. I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

~ Madalyn Murray O'hair

Have you noticed her name?Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. The WITCH! How did you dare? Does Hannah know? Oh, she's not named after Hannah. I hadn't gone ten miles down the river that day before I knew I'd left the real witch behind.

~ Elizabeth George Speare

He caught his breath, not because of her bedraggled appearance, but rather because of the way she stood, so straight and tall. Courageous.

~ Jan Moran

Remember! When you tell a woman that she cooks something very good, you will be fucked by eating it three times a day.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Every woman’s heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

A woman never argues with a compliment.

~ Erin Knightly

Though a modern woman’s computer is more intimate than her bed...

~ Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after.

~ Dianna Hardy

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Why do you think there aren’t rules to how sex will work? You didn’t want to talk to me about what you wanted. You pushed me into the room so I wouldn’t turn on the light because you knew damn well I would push back on that, didn’t you?”She stayed where she was. “Yes. I don’t want you to see me. I don’t look like one of those girls in a magazine.”He groaned, the sound coming from deep in his chest. “Those girls in the magazines are airbrushed and way too thin. The camera adds pounds so those girls are so skinny I wouldn’t be able to fuck them for fear I would break them. I want a woman, Avery, not some tiny freaking thing whose waistline only proves she doesn’t eat. I want a woman who can take me. I want a woman I can hold on to. So bend over because I want to see your ass. I want to look at it because I’ve been dreaming about it for days. It’s hot and round and so fucking juicy I can’t stand it. Get me hot, Avery. Show me your ass.

~ Lexi Blake

How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness.

~ Sofía Navarro

He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.

~ Aimee Bender

Strictly speaking, she was out of order. This dear 0-, how shall 1 say it?The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her tongue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts-at any rate not the reverse.

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

~ Coco Chanel

When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.

~ Steve Maraboli

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

~ Boris Pasternak

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my trothfor our love is whole;her breath is my wine,her scent is my soul.

~ Roman Payne

After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

I understand her immediately. She is an instigator, a fire starter, an accelerant of a human being, throwing herself into the middle of a crowd and lighting it up. She is fucking lighter fluid.

~ Marjorie Celona

Her fragrance blew him off and his body followed steps he had never learnt in his life.

~ Faraaz Kazi

Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.

~ Margaret Rome

I near felt bad he choose to be so evil to me. I am a forgiving woman, but my pen... oh my wicked wicked hormonal she-pen.

~ Coco J. Ginger

A woman's beauty should not imitate art.

~ Lionel Suggs

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

~ Stephen King

Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

~ Virginia Woolf

A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.

~ Lisa Kleypas

It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laugh, and I couldn't stop looking at her. It was a little bit chilly, and her cheeks were pink, and her dark hair was flowing around her face. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that. Sometimes our arms brushed against each other as we walked, and it was like I could feel the touch for minutes after it happened.

~ Carolyn Parkhurst

Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.

~ Roman Payne

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

~ Roman Payne

Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)

~ Roman Payne

Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.

~ Roman Payne

You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

~ Wally Lamb

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.

~ Jodi Picoult