Women Quotes

A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

~ Phyllis Diller

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to

~ George Sand

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

~ Elizabeth Peters

To all those women -- strong enough to be heroes, fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you.

~ Robert Fanney

[She] was a remarkable looking woman. Remarkable in that she wasn’t what most people would call beautiful. But she oozed a raw femaleness that I was certain made most women uncomfortable and sent men walking into walls. And when she smiled. Well. That was magic.

~ Beth Hoffman

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

~ David Mitchell

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

~ Tina Brown

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

~ Walter Dean Myers

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

~ Fanny Brice

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

~ Bella Abzug

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.

~ Jack D. Forbes

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

~ Milan Kundera

Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.

~ Alexandre Dumas Fils

The more you overthink the less you will understand.

~ Habeeb Akande

Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong. However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.

~ Anonymous

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Brunettes are full of electricity.

~ Villiers De L'isle-Adam

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Now is the time to become a myth.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

~ Meryl Streep

Ladies should also remember that gentlemen look more to the effect of a dress in setting off the figure and countenance of a lady than to its cost. Very few gentlemen have any idea the value of ladies' dresses. This is a subject for female criticism. Beauty of person and elegance of manners in women will always command more admiration from the opposite sex than beauty, elegance or costliness of clothing.The Scholars' Companion and Ball Room Vade MecumThomas Hillgrove, 1857

~ Thomas Hillgrove

I deserve better —such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain.

~ Meredith Duran

There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.

~ Gary Shteyngart

After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.

~ Sandra Dallas

Lines don’t make beautiful women less beautiful

~ Isabel Wolff

Lucifer will be furious with you for failing, but it's not like he can do anything about it. Women don't always do what you want, even if you're Lord of the Underworld.

~ Trinity Faegen

One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

~ E.w. Howe

Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!

~ David Mitchell

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--Wanda

~ Ouida

If you listen long enough to the whispers, you will hear the truth. Until then, I will tell you this: the world is made safe by a woman. She bound the monster up and cast him out, and the man who was left was saved.

~ E.k. Johnston

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

~ Alexandra Ivy

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

~ Heidi W. Durrow

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

~ George Gordon Byron

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

~ Lisa See

I figured I had kept her from being too depressed after fucking--it's hard for a girl with any force in her and any brains to accept the whole thing of fucking, of being fucked without trying to turn it on its end, so that she does some fucking, or some fucking up; I mean, the mere power of arousing the man so he wants to fuck isn't enough; she wants him to be willing to die in order to fuck. There's a kind of strain or intensity women are bred for, as beasts, for childbearing when childbearing might kill them, and child rearing when the child might die at any moment: it's in women to live under that danger, with that risk, that close to tragedy, with that constant taut or casual courage. They need death and nobility near. To be fucked when there's no drama inherent in it, when you're not going to rise to a level of nobility and courage forever denied the male, is to be cut off from what is inherently female, bestially speaking.

~ Harold Brodkey

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

~ Sue Monk Kidd