Women Quotes

No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

~ Charles Dickens

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

~ James Salter

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

~ Sena Jeter Naslund

Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?

~ Walker Percy

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

~ Margaret Atwood

Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

~ Milan Kundera

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

~ Erica Jong

heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control.

~ Margo Demello

I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

~ Elizabeth I

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

~ Gregory Hartley

All a woman actually wants is to feel special.

~ Matt Dunn

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people’s rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

~ C.s. Lewis

She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.

~ Michael Ondaatje

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

~ Asa Don Brown

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

~ Audre Lorde

Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you.

~ Zadie Smith

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

~ Mary Stewart

Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to man-up is to empower women.

~ Steve Maraboli

Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

~ Sherry Argov

She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, 'would not' happen.

~ Roman Payne

True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it.

~ Rosalind Miles

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action? How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever.

~ Ray Bradbury

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

~ Alison Goodman

An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even play the piano. She muddled Armenians and Turks; loved success; hated discomfort; must be liked; talked oceans of nonsense: and to this day, ask her what the Equator was, and she did not know.All the same, that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park; meet Hugh Whitbread; then suddenly in came Peter; then these roses; it was enough. After that, how unbelievable death was!-that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all; how, every instant . . .

~ Virginia Woolf

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

~ Cesare Pavese

I know that you and your girls have been told for years on end that you just don’t pass up any opportunities when a man walks your way—he could be The One. But I’m here to tell you that this philosophy is just plain dumb. Women are smart—you all can tell when your friends are lying, you know when your kids are up to no good, co-workers can’t get anything past you atthe job. You’re quick to let each one of them know that you’re not stupid, that you see them coming a mile away, and you’re not going to let them play that game with you. But when it comes to your relationships with the opposite sex, all of that goes out the window; you relinquish your power and lose all control over the situation—cede it to any old man who looks at you twice. Just because he happened to look at you twice.

~ Steve Harvey

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Women need food, water, and complimentsThat's right.And an occasional pair of shoes.

~ Chris Rock

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

~ Anita Brookner

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

~ Alice Hoffman

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up, and then they lengthens it out.

~ Charles Dickens

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

~ Michael Crichton

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

~ Warren Farrell

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

~ Roseanne Barr

He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly.

~ Cornelia Funke