Women Quotes

It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.

~ Milan Kundera

Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.

~ Marie Jenney Howe

In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

~ Khaled Hosseini

To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution.

~ Spencer W. Kimball

JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.

~ Charlaine Harris

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

~ Irvine Welsh

[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.

~ Tina Fey

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.

~ Nora Ephron

‎Lipstick is really magical. It holds more than a waxy bit of color - it holds the promise of a brilliant smile, a brilliant day, both literally and figuratively.

~ Roberta Gately

She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.

~ Gloria Naylor

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

~ Vandana Shiva

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.

~ Eve Ensler

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

~ Sarah Waters

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

~ Terry Goodkind

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life than are worse than no jewelry at all.

~ Jill Conner Browne

I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.

~ Cindy Crawford

We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and cuddling us in their arms; at the age of ten, we dream of love; at fifteen, love comes along; at sixty, it is still with us, and if dead men in their tombs have any thought in their heads, it is how to make their way underground to the nearby grave, lift the shroud of the dear departed women, and mingle with her in her sleep

~ Gustave Flaubert

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

~ Barbara Taylor Bradford

It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean you can make me do anything.

~ C. Joybell C.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

~ Alan Ashley-Pitt

. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives.The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling.Of course, women so empowered are dangerous. So we are taught to separate the erotic from most vital areas of our lives other than sex.

~ Audre Lorde

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.

~ Albert Camus

The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of.

~ Deb Baker

I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.

~ Jean Sasson

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

~ Honoré De Balzac

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--

~ Ahdaf Soueif

Whether it's men, women—it doesn't really matter. The human race is filled with passion and lust. And to coin terms like heterosexuality, homosexuality or even bisexuality makes no sense to me. You are human. You love who you love. You fuck who you fuck. That should be enough—no labels. No stigmas. Nothing. Just be to be.But life isn't that kind. People will always find things to hate.

~ Krista Ritchie

She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.

~ Nikki Rowe

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

~ Christine De Pizan

I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?

~ Judy Blundell

The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go to a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

~ Gustave Flaubert

And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.

~ Anne Bartlett

No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.

~ Rosalind Miles