Women Quotes

And the question is always When are you going to have kids? Rather than Do you want to have kids?

~ Caitlin Moran

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

~ Melina Marchetta

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

~ Marilyn French

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.

~ Erica Jong

They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands that sculpted sweetness from sullen flesh, that traced breast and ignited hips, opening, kneading. Flesh becomes bread in the heat of those hands, braided and rising.

~ Janet Fitch

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

~ Grover Cleveland

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

~ Henry Adams

Several things ran through my head as I watched this silent ballet: First, I was running low on pears, my favorite morning fruit. Second, I, as a woman, am much smarter than men, I having displayed foresight this male apparently lacked in regards to trash day. And finally, I desperately needed to see more of this man in his boxers.

~ Benjamin R. Smith

Previously, when I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of course, and I'm not trying to deny it, but what I say now is--if Mlle. Claude is a whore then what name shall I find for the other women I know?

~ Henry Miller

I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his life.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. Half a mile. Fifty yards. Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say Thirty-six C. Or Let's try it in the next size up. But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.

~ Marian Keyes

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

That night I woke up to a strange fact, keep milk not to drink but to feed the cat.

~ Aporva Kala

Women are better than men in handling their emotions, that is why every happy girl is not happy.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Of course , if I am nothing but an ego, and woman is nothing but another ego, then there is really no vital difference between us. Two little dolls of conscious entities, squeaking when you squeeze them. And with a tiny bit of an extraneous appendage to mark which is which...

~ D.h. Lawrence

Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I was his instrument, his animal. Nothing more. How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness. I was just one more of those women who clamp their mouths shut and wave the flag as their nation rolls off to conquer another in war. Guilty or innocent, they have everything to lose. They are what there is to lose. A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Life is not a competition between men and woman. It is a collaboration.

~ David Alejandro Fearnhead

Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A woman is human.She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.Likewise, she is never less.Equality is a given.A woman is human.

~ Vera Nazarian

Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn't, it was better to wait, then fuck her and hate her later on.

~ Charles Bukowski

It's in our genetics. It's why women are the master species. We give birth and we can walk in heels.

~ Jaci Burton

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

~ George Bernard Shaw

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

~ Ogden Nash

Make him love you,” Ruthless Me whispered. “Make it so he can’t live without you. The devil you know.” I felt her growing inside me, bringing with her the insane idea that I actually wielded power with Caleb.

~ C.j. Roberts

For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!

~ Meredith Duran

It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

~ Kate Chopin

Just about all men need a woman in one way or another, unless they’re very strange indeed. Tormenting you refreshes him. And you shouldn’t underestimate the gratitude all men feel for women’s beauty. Men who truly don’t like flowers are very uncommon and men who don’t respond to a beautiful woman are even more uncommon. It’s not primarily sexual; it’s a lifting of the spirits beauty gives. He’ll be in to torment you, and tease you, and enrage you, but really to have a good, refreshing look at you.

~ Robertson Davies

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

~ Oscar Wilde

Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

~ Bella Pollen

For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

~ Haruki Murakami

In one of the largest surveys of its kind to date, nearly 30,000 women told researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine that they'd rather lose weight than attain any other goal, a figure that alone suggests just how complicated the issue of appetite can be for women. This is the primary female striving? The appetite to lose appetite?In fact, I suspect the opposite is true: that the primary, underlying striving among many women at the start of the millennium is the appetite for appetite: a longing to feel safe and secure enough to name one's true appetites and worthy and powerful enough to get them satisfied.

~ Caroline Knapp

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to someone who had hurt her.

~ Deborah Bedford

I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

~ Bella Pollen

There is pain in being a woman, yes, but there is pride in it, too.

~ Mary Pauline Lowry

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren’t helpless dick-driven maniacs who can’t help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE.

~ Emily Nagoski

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

~ Virginia Woolf

This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all the other accidents of this life: it's not a case of being subjected in the sense of obeying, but rather of suffering an imposition, not a case of serving them fearfully, but rather of tolerating them in a spirit of Christian charity, since they have been given to us by God as a spiritual trial.

~ Moderata Fonte

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors, the longing for justice is the sword I carry.

~ Sonia Johnson