Women Quotes

I gave my heart to a man who loved me, who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered.I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time – cheating on me, again, as we were making final plans to move in together. By the time he came over to smooth talk his way out of it, I was done. No more crying. Even my tears had given up on him. I’d already moved on, his cheating was simply the key left in the mailbox.

~ Rachel Thompson

She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you.” She turned to the outer door.

~ Dashiell Hammett

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.

~ Otto Weininger

Who she walks with, will tell you if she's worth it.

~ Dustin Cruz

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

~ Andreï Makine

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

~ Marlo Thomas

People think needing a man is weak. I believe what is truly weak is not ALLOWING ourselves to surrender to our deepest desire to have a protective, strong, caring, masculine man in our life.

~ Renee Wade

A woman should never have a need to fear the man who holds her in his arms, neither his hands that touches her.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and better route to the M5, or to praise their own professional achievements. So is a man does express any curiosity about a woman sitting next to him, about her feelings, about the life she is leading, she will generally tell him anything he cares to know.

~ Julian Fellowes

Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.''And men never do,' I said, 'which is why we end up with no world left to lead.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.

~ Nike Thaddeus

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

~ Irwin Shaw

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

~ Margaret Atwood

Generally, men prefer dating women they love over women who love them; women prefer the opposite.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.

~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

She's no angel.He's no saint.

~ Elvis Costello

She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.

~ Angela Carter

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

~ Margaret Way

If you only attract Mr. Wrong or Ms. Crazy, evaluate the common thread in this diversity of people: YOU!

~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To a misogynist: To err is woman.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But the reality is that women today do not think of themselves in the context of helping their man. Women today have been brainwashed into thinking that efforts in that direction are in the category of oppression, subservience, and catering to frail male egos. It is sad that this is the prevalent point of view, because interdependence is what ultimately feeds both the man and the woman what they truly need to be happy.

~ Laura Schlessinger

She was a Victorian girl; a girl of the days when men were hard and top-hatted and masculine and ruthless and girls were gentle and meek and did a great deal of sewing and looked after the poor and laid their tender napes beneath a husband’s booted foot, and even if he brought home cabfuls of half-naked chorus girls and had them dance on the rich round mahogany dining-table (rosily reflecting great pearly hams and bums in its polished depths). Or, drunk to a frenzy, raped the kitchen-maid before the morning assembly of servants and children and her black silk-dressed self (gathered for prayers). Or forced her to stitch, on shirts, her fingers to rags to pay his gambling debts.Husbands were a force of nature or an act of God; like an earthquake or the dreaded consumption, to be borne with, to be meekly acquiesced to, to be impregnated by as frequently as Nature would allow. It took the mindless persistence, the dogged imbecility of the grey tides, to love a husband.

~ Angela Carter

Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

~ Margaret Way

The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Don't get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.

~ Marlon James

There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!

~ Margaret Way

Military intervention cannot liberate women because it is embedded within a set of assumptions, beliefs, and social relations that reinforce and reproduce gender inequality, as well as other social inequalities within and across nation-states. Military intervention depends upon a belief in the legitimacy of armed violence in resolving political problems, which in turn depends upon our adherence to particular ideas about what it means to be a man or a woman.

~ Nadje Al-Ali

Love is bold. Love is blind.

~ Arzum Uzun

Facing a deteriorating economy and a weakening hold over the populace, the Iraqi state under Saddam Hussein opted to revitalize tribal leaders and conservative practices as a means of stabilizing state power; those conservative practices were not an inherent feature of a predominantly Muslim country.

~ Nadje Al-Ali

One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.

~ Rosalind Coward

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

~ Anonymous

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

~ Pearl S. Buck

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting in his vanity and smiling at his secret demons.

~ Albert Camus

Physical attraction did its part to glue them together, but something stronger than sexual attraction sealed the bond. When men and women grow apart, it is for the same reason they are drawn together; because they are finally, inherently too different. Friendships among women, on the other hand, were burdened by similarity.

~ Galt Niederhoffer

In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going to have sex.

~ John Lanchester

...when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language........When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversion, we're having a conversation. Singular. We're paying attention to what is being said, considering that, and replying to it. All these other conversations have been going on for the last several thousand years? I didn't even know they existed...... I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one......So ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it's tempting fate to think to yourself, The man can't possibly be that stupid!But yes. Yes, he can.

~ Jim Butcher

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

~ Louise Erdrich